We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.

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.

[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.