I class myself as a manual laborer.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.