I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.