When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.