As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

You’re so damn big, ” she whispered.“Why, thank you cariño, ” he said.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.

She was seriously staring. Which was what you did when you got a gander at a man who is hung like a Louisville Slugger.

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.