Jesse Jackson was spending time with his family, or families.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.