The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.