It’s amazing. In the first five minutes after we gave the 800 number on “Larry King,” we had 800,000 calls. We couldn’t handle all the calls that came pouring in. . . The energy and enthusiasm is just like ‘92, even more.
If you’d bother to look at the facts, which I know you don’t, you’ll see that I had nothing to do with getting Bill Clinton elected. If all that propaganda hadn’t hit at the end, with both candidates and both parties and all the establishment pouring on the propaganda, they [the voters] would have elected me. It was the impact of propaganda. Those are the facts.
Ninety-three percent of the people say that government wastes too much money. Seventy-nine percent think that leaders will say and do anything to stay in power. Eighty percent think the government is run for the special interests . . . In ‘94, 19 percent said they had confidence in government to do the right thing. That’s night and day compared with the way it used to be in this country.
I can’t turn out the light in my life knowing that we’re leaving to our children and grandchildren a country burdened with runaway spending. I came from nothing, and I don’t want the American Dream to disappear.
Not related at all. I don’t want to focus on any candidates. The idea is to build this party and leave it in place for a substantial number of very qualified people who will come in and run. And they are going to have to run on the issues, not on propaganda and dirty tricks.
We could find that George Washington II has appeared in either of the established parties, and then we could back that candidate. But we are going to be the home of independent voters, not organized groups.
On referring to Republicans and Democrats as “special interest parties”
Now you’re putting words in my mouth. You’re trying to twist it around. It’s not what I’m saying; it’s what people are saying. They’re the ones talking about the special interests. Have you read the Packwood diaries?
I used the word “unorthodox” on “Larry King,” but a better word is “creative,” since everybody has their own idea of what is or isn’t orthodox. Let’s use a term people can understand: it’s unique. It’s different. It’s creative.
