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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've been in a lot of elections.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.

I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

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 always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.