In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.