I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.