WASHINGTON — People who run for president have to have a screw loose, Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview on Wednesday.

“Well, you have to be a little bit crazy to run for president, let me just put it like that, because you have to be so totally immersed and so convinced that you can bring something to that office,” she told Gwen Ifill on PBS’ “NewsHour.”

As for the presidency, Clinton observed, “You have to be totally consumed by [it], and that’s kind of the definition of being a little bit crazy, I think.”