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.

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.

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know, How was this to be apart of my destiny?

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.