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

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

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.

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 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.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

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

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

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

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

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

It's important in any project to remain focused.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.