"It’s pretty tough to intimidate me. And that’s probably at my own peril sometimes."
"I put my conservatism up against anyone. I’m a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn’t seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise."
"It’s funny, when I’m in airports and I’m walking around, maybe feeling a little tired in my sweatpants and not wanting to talk to folks, I just put on my sunglasses. And usually it works every time."
"And I think when you’re an elected official, rightly so, you should watch what you say."
"Newsweek is one of the most anti-Christian magazines out there."
"I knew at a very young age that I didn’t really buy the whole God gamut."
"I’m not someone else’s mouthpiece. I’m not carrying water for anyone - whether that’s the GOP, Fox News, or Christianity. I’m not doing anyone else’s dirty work."
"I never have any idea how my opinions will be received, and more often than not I'm surprised when anything I say is controversial."
"I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?"
"Sunday is the only day where I can kind of do my own thing and not have it dictated by the news cycle."
"When I decided to see what Nascar was all about in 2005, it was an intellectual project, the same reason I went to the shooting range on West 20th Street and tried shooting a rifle at paper targets. I was addicted to both things instantly."
"I love, love, love the reality shows on Bravo. It’s great mindless television."
"I hate mouth noises of all kinds - chewing, swallowing, gum smacking, heavy breathing."
"I get Google alerts that automatically let me know when someone’s calling me a nutjob."
"We moved a lot. I went to nine schools in four states before I was 14. It gave me tough skin, exposed me to lots of different kinds of people and made me somewhat adaptable."
"I’d be perfectly happy living anonymously on a ranch in Kentucky, where the only time someone mentioned me was to discuss the crazy lady up the road with all the taxidermy and jerky."
"Most conservative atheists I know, including myself, have a really healthy respect for the role of religion in society and this country, in particularly."
"Bill Maher thinks 95 percent of the world has a neurological disorder."
"Few believe Democrats will control both houses of Congress in 2021, and even if they manage to, Republicans will still be around to play spoiler on plenty of big agenda items."
"To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act."
"Larry Hogan Sr. was the first Republican to break with President Richard Nixon during his impeachment hearings, weakening not only the GOP firewall of support for the embattled president, but also Nixon’s own defiance."
"We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they’re up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact."
"Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He’s been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump’s increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them."
"While our goals in Syria were never clearly enumerated by then-President Obama or President Trump, throughout the war one of our most committed and effective allies in the fight has been the Kurds."
"After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze."
