It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.