If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.

You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.

Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.