There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.