One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age.

Newt Gingrich’s job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

If you’re going to try to win an election, you can’t be 80 percent. You can’t say, I’m for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

We didn’t think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn’t think the census ought to be weakened.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt’s age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once.

There’s a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

That’s the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn’t work, you try another.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don’t have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.