When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'
“People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.”
“I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.”