“I look at the country, I look at the world […] And we need good leadership in this country,” he said, before slamming Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her campaign as “arrogant and weak.”

Pataki said he is proud to talk about his record as an elected official, unlike Clinton, before invoking what the world was like under Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

“We now have chaos through weakness. We need American leadership that again is willing to say this is a great country, we will stand with our allies, we will rebuild our military and make those who dislike us fear us,” he said.

Pataki said the three Republican senators who have already entered in the race are all “good candidates,” but they “haven’t run a government” — a characteristic they share with President Obama.

Pataki, who has teased the idea of a presidential run before, served as New York’s governor from 1995 to 2006. Though he is remembered for a relatively prosperous period for the Empire State and strong leadership following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, Pataki’s name does not register on a RealClearPolitics average of polls of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination candidates.