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" Q: You&amp;#039;re from Hope, AR. What is it about that town? A: Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. You have to go out, meet the voters, and &amp;quot;ask for the business.&amp;quot; You can&amp;#039;t just hide in a television studio and make commercials. It&amp;#039;s also a place where people have grown up with poverty. It gives you perspective, and the kind of grit necessary not to be overwhelmed by a challenge.  Q: Besides a hometown, anything else you and Bill Clinton have in common?  A: Neither of us grew up children of privilege, and we&amp;#039;ve never forgotten where we came from. I have more in common with the people working in the kitchen than the ones at the head table. Regardless of Bill Clinton&amp;#039;s politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency -- twice. Don&amp;#039;t take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.  Q: Sounds like you&amp;#039;re a fan.  A: I&amp;#039;m sure there are people who wish I&amp;#039;d never say anything kind about Clinton, but I&amp;#039;m not going to be characterized by anger and bitterness. That&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s wrong with politics today.  Q: You&amp;#039;ve written a book about weight. How much did you lose?  A: [I lost] 110 pounds. It isn&amp;#039;t rocket science. Diets fail because you lose weight and then it&amp;#039;s, &amp;quot;Oh, thank goodness this is over.&amp;quot; I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn&amp;#039;t live the rest of my life like a rabbit.  Q: Do you still go to Sonic drive-in? A: My wife likes it. I have a few guidelines: If it comes through a car window, it&amp;#039;s not food. And if it wasn&amp;#039;t a food a hundred years ago, it&amp;#039;s not a food now.  Q: It&amp;#039;s hard to live Twinkie-free. I was raised on them.  A: If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change. Frito-Lay was the first big food manufacturer to go completely trans fat-free. No more partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. It&amp;#039;s a great preservative -- now crackers have a longer shelf life than we do.  Q: Speaking of shelf life, what should we do in Iraq?  A: The key thing is to have clear expectations of an Iraqi government. We&amp;#039;re kidding ourselves if we think it&amp;#039;s going to look just like ours. We need a self-determining, stable government that enables the people there to live in relative peace.  Q: What if it&amp;#039;s a fundamentalist regime?  A: Fundamentalist or fascist? Saudi Arabia is strict. That&amp;#039;s their decision. But they don&amp;#039;t pose an immediate threat to us. If they&amp;#039;re going to harbor or support terrorists, then it becomes my business.  Q: But if they&amp;#039;re taking away the rights of women...  A: Obviously, that&amp;#039;s not something we&amp;#039;d support. But I don&amp;#039;t think we have a right to militarily intervene in every culture with which we disagree.  Q: I read that you&amp;#039;re against miniskirts.  A: If a person dresses provocatively, they&amp;#039;re calling attention -- maybe not the most desirable kind -- to private parts of their body.  Q: What about a burka?  A: No, that hides everything. I think a person&amp;#039;s hair, arms, shoulders, legs are an appropriate display of who they are. I want people to be attracted to me because they find me interesting, not because I&amp;#039;m wearing something...well, I doubt I own anything provocative.  Q: How about a miniskirt?  A: A thong. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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