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.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

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

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

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.