“Biking through New York’s boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.”
“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money. If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had no pizza, would you give him a slice?”
“Harry Truman, former president, said, ‘If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.’ Or buy a dog. But I have a dog. Her name, by my wife Erma, is Trouble. Now, I call her Baby.”
“So I just think it is important for us to get all that clear and on the record because that provides the context in which we are going to have to be making a series of decisions. That, of course, now leaves me very little time to ask questions and that’s unfortunate.”
“It’s me! I see myself moving around! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! This guy keeps moving around in front of me. Jeez! At any rate, stop looking at this guy in front of me! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You look at it and think, it’s too much of a good thing!”
“I’m in the private sector and for the first time in my life I’m earning money. You know that’s sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that.”