“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.”

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”

“I've got an 'eckilectic' reading list.”

“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question”

“When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.”

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”