"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

"The great growling engine of change - technology."

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."

"Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying."

"The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability."

"It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere."

"Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to."