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I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.

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.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

I'm not going to run for political office.

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job.

I'm a Republican. I'm running in a Republican primary.

When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.