[on his father] I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now. Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's -- these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people. [2003]

(From a 60 Minutes (1968) interview, expressing his believe that his mother encouraged his father to become a U.S. President) "I think if left to his own devices, he might have ended up hosting Unsolved Mysteries (1987) on TV or something".