Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.
The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.
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 think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.
When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.
I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.
I will go on doing what voters tell me to do, which is working with others, working out solutions, and getting results.