Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.

I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.