“There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conserva...” — Wayne Newton Quote

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

I am a free-thinking, independent, conservative black man. The left-wing of the Democratic Party, they were mortified by that.

I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.