Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

American public policy is run on a myth.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.