One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution. I think we have a whole roomful of people that have record legislation in terms of quantity of pages that didn't read it.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.