Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President - and nothing was ever heard from either of them again

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.

Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

We certainly don't have the struggle that our brothers and sisters down in Connecticut have, where you have legislators and an attorney general that are out of touch as far as Indian rights are concerned. It's certainly a long struggle, I know. I hope they make it. I know they deserve it.

What this country (America) needs is a really good 5-cent cigar.