It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.