I wish you had run for president.
I think you would win in a landslide
right now. And you know that too.
Is there any regret?
No, there's no regret. There's
no regret. I'm doing what
I said I would do.
And when you are doing that and you've
been true to yourself and you're true to
the relationships around
you, you have no regrets.
And that's the most important thing,
I tell my kids who are now with
me because of this craziness.
But I've actually had a chance to spend
some time with them, real quality time,
where they're not running
in and running out. Uh,
it's no regrets is the most important
thing to end the game with. Right? And,
uh, you want to have
accomplished everything you
wanted, uh, but that's okay.
But no regrets that you honored yourself
and you honored your word and you
honored your commitment and
you did the right thing.
When you were a kid and you saw
your father never really, you know,
ran for the presidency,
what age did you know you
were going to be a politician,
that you were going to run for office?
How old were you at that point when,
when it really dawned on you,
it's something you wanted to do?
Yeah, my late teens, my
late teens, you know,
my father communicated
such a passion for his job,
such a love and how public
service was an art form. You know,
everybody's talking about
politicians and the grubby-ness.
He elevated it to an art form.
And how the way he communicated it Howard,
everything else was second. You know,
he would say literally, uh,
unless you go into a religious
order and dedicate your life to God,
uh, everything else is second.
Because public service is about helping
other people in its purest form.
And when it's done right, it makes
a significant impact on people.
Government doesn't do its job here. Uh,
this is a situation that is unparalleled
and it will change the course of
people's lives depending
on how this is handled.
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