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People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Government is not show business.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

There is no law governing all things.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

There's not a lot of light on television.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.