I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Negative politics have always been around.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.