"The reason I became a Republican is because Eisenhower was running. A hero from World War II, a charismatic individual, a military man, a non-attorney - even then I liked that! I was a very young person voting for the first time. A lot of people joke that a conservative is a liberal who's made his first $100,000 and then decides, wait a second, I want to save this, why are they taxing it away?"

  "Today the country's in kind of a turmoil over taxing.
Being raised in the thirties, watching my parents work hard to make ends meet,
with jobs scarce, and then the war years - it tends to make a person a little more fiscally conscious
than if you've been born into a wealthier family."

"You know, if you go to most people who are self-made and ask them what their political philosophy is,
usually they're a little more conservative than people who had a better start."

"My parents were mixed,  I think one Republican, one Democrat,
so I didn't have any grand-pappies to influence me."

           Asked if he is still registered as a Republican:

       "Yes, I am.      I started ...
  I enrolled as a Republican in 1951 when Dwight Eisenhower was running.
 And I was in the military. I was a fan of his. And that's how I got started off".

 On Former President Ronald Reagan
"Yes, I liked him very much.
 
 When he was a former president of the Screen Actors Guild,
I don't think he had the vast support that a lot of other presidents have had.
So I don't know why that is, it's just the nature of things." -

           "They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

 "I've always supported a certain amount of gun control. 
I think California has always had a mandatory waiting period, so we were never concerned about it like the rest of the country. Some states didn't have any at all. So I've always supported that. I think it's very important that guns don't get in the wrong hands, and, yes, I would support most of that. I don't know too much about trigger locks. I've never really discussed that with anyone. But I do feel that guns - it's very important to keep them out of the hands of felons or anyone who might be crazy with it."