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

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.

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'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.

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 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.