Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.