Don't know how much was humor, since I only read part of the transcript, but during his interview yesterday, Scalia said he wasn't sure he would be willing to go through the confirmation process again.
My father was a councilman for over 30 years. He said to me one time, "Don't EVER call me a politician!"
He died in 2001. He would have been thoroughly disgusted with politics 4 years later.
I heard that and thought it spoke volumns. I was sitting here working and thinking the direction our country is taking (in general) really scares me for the younger generation.