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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 didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.