I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.