Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

You become successful, the way I see it, only if you're good enough to deliver what the public enjoys. If you're not, you won't have any audience; so the performer really has more to do with his success than the public does.