Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.