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.

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

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.

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

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.