Former President George W. Bush, as quoted in the Atlantic:
On the subject of politics, he said that “eight years was awesome. I was famous and I was powerful, but I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I don’t want to undermine our president, whoever the president is.” In his view, “I think its bad for the presidency to have former presidents bloviating, opining, and telling people how it ought to be done.” Nor does he want to play a major role in determining who gets elected. “I crawled out of the swamp, and I’m not crawling back in,” he said…
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