I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.