I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Aficionado my ass...I just love to smoke cigars

Give Bush 10 minutes before you hammer him. I think he's going to surprise people. He sounds simple and uncomplicated, but maybe that's what we need now. He's not as stupid as everyone thinks. I like the guy.

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'