In this nation, leadership is dollars.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

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