The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

It could go either way at this point. There is some pessimism and some optimism. It's going to be interesting the whole way around.

It happens all the time. People feel threatened by my height.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Should I shoot him? He was a tyrant. He'd killed thousands.

Bush is perhaps a brighter man that we imply, but on the other hand he's probably just as narrow a man as we report him to be.