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

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

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.

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.

The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and that's a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don't expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.