The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.