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

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

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

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.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.