We might all feel that way, but it's a very hard argument to make. I had an eighth-grade science teacher who was one of the most physically unattractive people I ever met in my life. (Laughter.) He had thick Coke-bottle glasses, and he smoked cheap cigars in a cigar holder that caused his mouth to pinch. And he had been a football coach before he became a science teacher, and he gained a little weight after he turned to science, and he still wore the same clothes. (Laughter.)
And I'm telling -- let me tell you why I said this. (Laughter.) One day in class he said to us -- I was 13 at the time, 47 years ago -- he said, "You won't remember anything about science in a few years. So if you don't remember anything else in class that I teach you, remember this: every day I get up, and I go to my bathroom, and I wash my face, throw water in my eyes. I shave, I wipe the shaving cream off, I look into the mirror and say, 'Vernon, you're beautiful.'" (Laughter.)
And by the end of the year, he was beautiful to me. I say that to remind you it is very hard to succeed in politics when you're telling people they're ugly all the time.
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