It's important not to stigmatize the word Republican, because the great tragedy is an extremist group has taken over one of our great parties.

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

It would be a tragedy for the Republican party to start splitting.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.