You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like [Barack] Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.