I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.