It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I don't care what the polls say.

I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.