I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

One problem is that we are heavily dependent upon fossil fuels. And that's where the greenhouse gases come from, by and large, some deforestation, as well. But we have not yet come to grips with how to change that. So that's where we are right now.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.