An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

I think it's unrealistic to believe that somewhere in outer space two big rocks crashed together with a bang and now I have a wonderful family, freedom, and opportunity." We're gathered here with love and fellowship and friends. You can bang rocks together all you want; you cannot create what we have here. Maybe God can create life from big bangs, but rocks can't.

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

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

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.

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.