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I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

I ran for Congress, just once.