I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.