If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

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 think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I don't care what the polls say.

The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face al Qaeda.

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