"I am a Reagan Republican."
"Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush."
"I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with."
"Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business."
"Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake."
"Nobody ever built a statue to a committee."
"If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated."
"How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties."
"In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished."
"Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that."
"Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was."
"The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit."
"I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party."
"I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them."
"I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick."
"I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife."
"You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager."
"Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd."
"A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics."
"If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary."
"The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise."
"I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style."
"I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense."
"Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from."
"You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there."
