"You see, on the landscape...there's the yelling. Into the chessboard. Upon which is a tent! For the enemy camp! Master plan!"

“Republican 'poutrage' over the 'handshake seen round the world.'”

“Michelle Obama: "more popular than warmth on a cold day" MSNBC”

“So best of luck to the Sea Shadow and its disguise-me ship, which I have to say are the most adorable multimillion dollar bits of scrap heap-bound Cold War ephemera that we have seen in a long time.”

“Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?”

“Not all Freudian slips are created equal.”

“The bomb exploded the junk in Vladimir's trunk. Y'know, they always said that Communists would get it in the end.”