Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

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

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.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.