system. and the reaction, people completely misunderstand what is going on. it is not that i am a good debater. it is that i articulate the deepest felt values of the american people. [ applause ] >> you you know, this is a remarkable system. what makes us different from virtually every other country in the world is that we are free and because we are free we can produce leadership from an amazing range of places. now, sometimes that leadership is good. we once had an actor who made movies with chimpanzees. he turned out to be one of our greatest presidents and ended up with the disappearance of the soviet empire. we once had a peanut farmer nuclear physicist. he didn't turn out to be quite as good.