In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

You gotta choose what battles you can win.

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.