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So I said, “But let's take Portugal, for example. Don't you think we should help the democratic forces there from being overridden by the communists that want to take power?” So says one of these guys -- and they all live in my neighborhood in the Village on East 9th Street, East 10th and one of them says -- “I want to tell you: we have to worry about the right wing trying to come back in Portugal.” So I said, “Well, if the right wing comes back as the result of a democratic election, is that okay?” “No,” he says, “it's not okay.” I said, “Well, let me get something straight. If the left wing comes in as a result of a democratic election, is that okay?” “Yes.” “But,” said I to him, “if the right wing comes in as a result of a democratic election, that's bad? That's not okay? We should stop that in some way?” “Yes.” I said, “You're nuts.” (laughs) “That isn't my philosophy. My philosophy is: I don't care what the democratic election produces. If people want to be communist in a democratic election, that's okay with me. If they want to be fascist in a democratic election, that's okay with me. Not with me, but I am not for stopping it. That's not our business. But when it's imposed on them by either of the totalitarian forces we're talking about or any other totalitarian force against a democratic force, I'm opposed to it. And that is why I'm for helping Suarez and the Portuguese government today, because they are resisting a communist takeover -- not a communist takeover at the polls. The Communists only got 12%, and the democratic forces got 80%, and the junta got 7% in the last democratic