In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting the other person down, that's different than if you're inquiring about the process they go through to make a decision on behalf of the public.

Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.

Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

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