Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.

Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I've heard all my life that 'this is impossible, you can't make' it and 'you're going to fail' but I didn't listen to them and I made it.