The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

People, if you can't get through the puns, I can't give you the good stuff.