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I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a broadcaster. I've been an adviser. I worked for Ronald Reagan.

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I am not a career politician, even though this is my 12th year in the United States House of Representatives.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.