Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.
Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I think we need to look outside the Beltway and start to look at a younger, more diverse pool of people and tap them to run for office instead of continuously tapping the same type of self-funder individual that Republicans seem to go after every time.
I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.
I'm OK with guns in schools, if it's a security, trained security personnel. But every teacher having a gun, I don't know if I can jump up and down on that one and fully get behind it.
Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.
Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut. " We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill. "
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right. ' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.
If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.
They [people] mistake fashion for style.
I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.