Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

It doesn't seem to make any sense, but then it never does! It's usually only afterwards when the pieces finally fit together, that you're left standing there thinking how obvious it always was.

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.