>>A: I took a hard look at it in '95, really never expected that level of interest in me as a political figure, but the book, and my book tour, exploded that interest. And I realized that this was not something I truly wanted to do. I never woke up any morning saying, "My God, I can't wait to get out on the campaign trail." I don't have that passion. And it was not something my family wanted to do, meaning my wife. But it was basically my decision. We never had to have the final climactic family meeting over it. We finally stopped listening to everybody who was trying to tell us what to do with our lives and said, "What do we want to do?" And not a lot of us thought we wanted to do this. So it was a mutual decision.
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>>Which is really too bad.
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>The real shame is that what makes a good president has little to do with what gets someone elected.
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That's for sure. It has been said that anyone who agrees to go through the crap you have to go through to get elected President in this country thereby demonstrates he or she is unfit for the office.