I am not a professional politician.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

If there is one currency that helped Wikileaks take on the might of the U.S. Government, it was Bitcoins.

Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.