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Your government is no longer mine.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I am the government.

My plan is to govern as long as I can.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'