The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

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