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

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.

All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.

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.

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

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.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.