This clearly looked like an extremely inappropriate quid-pro-quo offer.

Susan Rose-Ackerman

It is reflective of his own moral compass. It is showing the way in which he thinks about his role as president, it isn't tied so much to a million dollars here or a million dollars there. It's tied to his perspective about what it means to be president -- that he sees it as giving him free range to do things.

Susan Rose-Ackerman