I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.
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I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.
Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.