If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.
In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.
Governors, all things being equal, I'd rather have a governor in the White House than somebody that's not had that experience.
I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.
There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.
I know Gov. Christie. We've met a couple of times.
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.
Elected presidents are for countries.