Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.