It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.