There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.