There are things that matter more than your election. That may take difficult votes, may take career-ending votes for people, but if we aren't willing to do that, then we're not going to move forward.
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
I know we can fix our problems. When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than they worry about winning reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place.
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
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