You don't need a guidebook to see New Orleans - just a good pair of shoes.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.