The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.