Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state it's around the world.

A couple of months ago I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said 'Well 200 days.' And I was like '200 days? Try 20!'

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

In America we no longer have an institutionalized organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

After I left the White House I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host analyst commentator speechmaker and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner but I was still a partisan a Democrat a blue-stater through and through.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf I can.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why on this day of all days I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.