but can we drop a littleit of a pias bologna. the fact is you ran in '94 and lost. that's why you weren't serving the senate with rick santorum. th fact is you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 20 days preparing to run for president, you didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what to do, you were running for preside while you were governor. you were going all or the country. you were out oftate consistently. you then promptly re-tered politics, happened to lose to mccain as you had lost to kennedy. you're back nning. you've been running consistently for years and years and years, so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind, just level with the american people. you've been running for at least since the 1990s. [ applause ] >> governor, please. mr. speaker, citizenship has always been on my mind. and i happen to see my dad run for governor when he was 54 years old. he had good advice to me. he said, mitt never get involved in politics if you have to wi