Oprah Winfrey indicated she has not ruled out the possibility of running for president while speaking with David Rubenstein on the season two premiere of Bloomberg Television's The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations.
"I never considered the question, even a possibility," Winfrey said. "I just thought, oh. Oh."
"Right, because it's clear that you don't need government experience to be elected president of the United States," Rubenstein said.
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"That's what I thought," agreed Winfrey. "I thought, oh gee, I don't have the experience, I don't know enough. And now I'm thinking: Oh."
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