If he's going to break through this polarization that we had now that has plagued both the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, he's got to try some things that are different.

I think a public speech is a very good idea and then answer some questions after it's over.

I think it would be a good idea for her, as you suggested, to -- to give a major speech in the next few days, to let us know what her vision of the country is.

I think we should give this poor man a chance to try something new, to reach out across divides, to see if he can't find common ground among people who may disagree on some issues, but agree on others, so that he's going to do, as a…

I think to go out upstate and talk to the Mayors up there and begin to take some questions from the press, she wants to see how much she really enjoys the rough and tumble.

I think that part of what the role is going to be for the next two year's -- let's remember, we're only talking about somebody who's going to fill a seat for two years until there's a general election.

It's almost done, Anderson, in my view. But David Paterson the governor, now finds himself caught in the cross fire doesn't he? He's probably going to be damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

I'm not sure Caroline Kennedy as well meaning, well intentioned, the good public servant that she is, I'm not sure she fits that bill.

I think we have to look at the larger picture. Barack Obama is becoming President of one of the most divided nations in the industrialized world; one that has been almost paralyzed in acting on a variety of fronts because of our deep, deep…

I think we ought to give both these men a more generous understanding of what they're attempting to do. They're attempting to build bridges.

You know, they shouldn't. But it's not as if Caroline Kennedy is coming in from the entertainment world.