Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

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'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.

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

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

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