Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.