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.

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 have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.

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

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

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.