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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.

It's a hard job to become president.