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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

The 1960s were really a life-changing time.

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.