The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Negative politics have always been around.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.