I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.