The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.