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I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

I've always been a conservative first.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

I keep my political views to myself.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.