Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
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.
I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.
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.
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given. . . but we're cool nerds.
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.
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.