Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.

Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.