" Governor Bush is the first candidate in the history of the modern era, when we've had federal financing, who has given it up so that an unlimited amount of money could be raised, so that puts all the others at, I think, a relative disadvantage. It's something that some people urged on me four years ago, because I could have done that. And I decided it wasn't fair, and I didn't do it. I didn't think it was the right thing to do."

No, better to do the right thing: receive bags of cash from overseas, hit up Buddhist nuns, and rent out the Lincoln Bedroom.