The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.