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.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

We cannot be spun, or at least we'd like to think that we cannot be. And the presidents who are trying to - too overtly to try to say, here is what you historians and what you later Americans should think of my presidency, 30 or 40 years later, they look silly.

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.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.