Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.