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.

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

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 think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

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.

Television and I grew up together.