We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

I am an analyst; my job is to analyze.

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

You gotta choose what battles you can win.