Brian Lamb: You were involved in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. You are going to know why I am asking -- going to ask you this question based on what you just said, the four areas if you ran for president you would be thinking about. It’s two words: Bode Miller.

What do you think of what happened to Bode Miller and his attitude? He came zero-five in the Olympics. He was on the cover on every magazine. His attitude, what he would do at night and all that stuff, what did that -- I’m sure you have an opinion on it.

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• ROMNEY**: Well, I don’t want to be critical in any way of any athlete that’s good enough to get on the U.S. Olympic team and compete on a global basis. But I do know that in the back of my mind, something that my dad used to say comes to mind.

And that is, there is nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success. And overconfidence can be a very dangerous attitude. And I don’t know whether that’s all of what was going on in Bode Miller’s life. It seems like that was probably part of it, who knows?

But I know that in the case of our nation, and I know you have made that connection, in the case of our nation, we are the most powerful nation on the Earth. We are way ahead of any Asian country at this point.

I don’t sit and quake in my boots about what is coming down the road, but I recognize, we have to raise the bar in education. We have got to invest more in technology. We have got to change our immigration laws. We have got to be serious about shrinking the size of government and releasing more entrepreneurial activity.

We have to -- I go back to one of my favorite cowboy philosophers. Will Rogers said, you know, even if you are on the right track, if you don’t move, you will get run over.

And America is on the right track, we are way ahead, but we have to move again. We have got to get going and recognize that you can’t be the superpower of the planet forever unless you take challenges seriously and improve your game.

And I think, going back to Bode, my guess is he may have been a little overconfident.

C-Span from Brian Lamb