How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.