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

Susan Rose-Ackerman (born Susan Gould Rose on April 23, 1942 in Mineola, New York) is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) and is co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. She is an expert in political corruption and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, 2nd edition, with Bonnie J. Palifka (the first edition has been translated into 17 languages), Due Process of Lawmaking (with Stephanie Egidy and James Fowkes), and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland, plus the following edited volumes: International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, vols. I & II (with Tina Søreide), Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth and Blake Emerson), Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington), and Greed, Corruption and the Modern State (with Paul Lagunes). Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Sciences Po, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Collegium Budapest, as well as a visiting research scholar at the World Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College. Her current research focuses on comparative administrative law and public policy-making and the political economy of corruption.

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