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

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.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

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

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

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.