Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

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

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people, men, women and children, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, weapons that should have never been used, should have never been developed in the first place, you know?

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

The terrorists are going to believe the worst about America. They think we spy on everything. They think we kill everyone. They think - they don't believe that we believe in democracy, right? They don't believe we have limits on our government.