"There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead."

"In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously."

"The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment."

"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."

"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."

"Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security."

"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions."

"The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country."