I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

[The eruption of the flag controversy is a glaring symptom of a distressing change in American politics over the past decade: the way that pit-bull negative ads have led to simplistic, visceral posturing by candidates at the expense of more substantive approaches to real problems.] It's a good issue to define your opponent, ... If your opponent is for flag burning, he's got to go through a very sophisticated explanation.

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

Nothing amazes me anymore.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.