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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

I think it's my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.

Most journalists are idiots.

When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.