Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus. ' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat. ' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
Confidence is everything in this business.
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.