Kevin Roberts

What other organizations, former political leaders want to do, and I mean this with the greatest Christian charity that I can summon, is fine.

They can go do that.

But I can tell you at Heritage, as I said on my first day, every day we're on offense.

And if there are people who are nipping at our heels because they have a difference of opinion about politics,

Our tactics or maybe even how we are applying longstanding principle to policy, we respect them, but we're just going to speed up.

And the American people are with us, which is why I can sit here smiling telling you this story.

Man, I can't tell you how 100% accurate and astute that is.

In fact, Charlie and I would occasionally, two or three times a year, commiserate on that.

Not complaining.

We're grateful, truly, for all of those people, and not just because of the material resources that they would give our respective organizations, because every single one of those people is a patriot, right?

And we're grateful for them.

And so the way I manage it, I know that he did an exceptional job.

The way that I attempt to manage that is to have conversations with people.

I have an open-door policy at Heritage.

I am on the phone a lot with a lot of different people, policymakers.

donors, donor prospects, friends out in the movement.

But I will tell you that there are two things that are really key.

Actually, three, I would say.

The first is, and I try to lead with this, articulate a very clear vision about where we're going.

Because that means that in almost every gathering of the center right of conservatives, libertarians, people like free market, people who are social conservatives, almost every gathering, there's going to be 80 to 90% agreement on that aspirational vision.