America is a country that believes in redemption.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.