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Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

I was considering running for political office.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.

I ran for president in 1996.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.