And he might not run at all.

"Damn good question,” he said when pressed on whether he's considering a presidential campaign. “Not sure I have. Not sure I will.”

Schweitzer then launched into a less-than-flattering critique of the Obama administration and the front-running Democratic successor – Hillary Clinton. Obama’s Affordable Care Act doesn’t go far enough in addressing factors driving health care costs, he said, and the president has continued a pointless war in Afghanistan.

“Can you find somebody in Iowa or any place else in America that can say why we went to Afghanistan and why we’re still there?” Schweitzer asked. “Until we have leadership in Washington that understands that our military is to protect American interests at home and not be the police of the world, we’re going to make these mistakes again.”

Asking Iowans, who will begin the 2016 nomination process, to support candidates who look forward rather than repeat the mistakes of the past is why he is in Iowa Schweitzer said.

“I think we need to look at a leader that is going to be talking about the future,” he said. “Maybe we want to make sure that mistakes that have been made in the past are not the mistakes that we make in the future.”