I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.