practical politics that has been present throughout jerry's life. >> i i want to prove it by building the most powerful democratic party in america. if i do that, i think people will-call upon me. >> george bush, sr. president of the united states, run for re-election in 1992. and there isn't a democrat out there who's willing to run against him? why? because bush has just led the first gulf war, the 1991 gulf war. and jerry brown, he's saying to himself if this democratic nomination is wide open, and maybe i can step forward and i can win the democratic nomination. >> they said before i left office that i will return. a little grandiose, mccarther in my mind, i will return. and i did. >> and keeping with his reputation as a political reformer, brown refused to take any donation in excess of $100 and accumulated an army of