There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Who laughs less than feminists?

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

I don't care what anybody thinks.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

I am not insecure about being a journalist.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

I try to tell the truth.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

Animals shouldn't be mistreated.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.