You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.