I would rather be a good man with mediocre book sales, than a mediocre man with big book sales. Book sales were never my interest, ... The Raising of a President.

My book could have been released before the election, ... It would have been driven by partisan sales.

My initial hope was to record something that would have historical value, but this has become too much, ... I think I should get the tapes back to him. He was the other person on the line, and they can do whatever they want with them. History can wait.

Tonight, my agent called me and said, 'Well, do you want to retire a multimillionaire?'

There's no question that the president's faith is real, that it's authentic, that it's genuine, and there's no question that it's calculated.

In a 10-year period, he became a millionaire, the governor of Texas, and the president of the United States,