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

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

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.

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

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.

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

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