I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when he was president. I was doing Nixon on the radio, and when we did live shows I physicalized him - if that's a word - for the first time. And then I did a Nixon sketch on a very short-lived NBC show called Sunday Best.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.