Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

It is up to the government to keep the government’s secrets.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They’re going in a different direction, but that’s their privilege. They own the business.

I’m 72-years-old. There’s not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, ‘Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.’ They didn’t join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey’s clothes.

Always love your country – but never trust your government!

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.