Newt will never be President, but just in case.

From a profile in Vanity Fair, from 1995. A lot of the article is how his then-wife really didn't want to be first lady. But the quote to savor is this:

But in Washington there are many demands on the Speaker's time. Since Newt became a national celebrity, he has no shortage of female admirers --from Callista Bisek, a former aide in Congressman Steve Gunderson's office who has been a favorite breakfast companion, to the ubiquitous Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, who has become a self-appointed guardian to the newly desirable Newt.

This is sort of like that picture of Clinton hugging Monica on the rope line. Little did we know at the time…

The fact that this serial philandering, disgraced former speaker is selling himself as the savior of America's values ought to be as laughable as a pizza ceo/restaurant lobbyist being president.

Christopher Hitchens

From the New York Times obit:

He became a staff writer and editor for The New Statesman in the late 1970s and fell in with a literary clique that included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, James Fenton, Clive James and Ian McEwan. The group liked to play a game in which members came up with the sentence least likely to be uttered by one of their number. Mr. Hitchens’s was “I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party.”
and, later:
He also threw himself into the defense of his friend Mr. Rushdie. “It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved,” he wrote in his memoir. “In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”