It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

We do not sponsor any form of terrorism anywhere in the world. Never have, never will

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.