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When I came here in 2008, nobody knew who I was. I didn't know who I was. I was just enjoying the moment and I won. So, now, coming back being the person I am with all the accomplishments, it kind of puts things in perspective.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

I'm known as a winner now.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.