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.

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

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.

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.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

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.