I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want – it’s no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, ‘You ought to go into politics.’ I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I’m not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.

Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn’t trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.