I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.