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My goal was never to get re-elected. -- Scott McCallum
I don't think Obama will get re-elected. -- Jim DeMint
I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent. -- Lindsey Graham
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected. -- Jimmy Carter
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something? -- Grover Cleveland
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate. -- Jim Cooper
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. -- Woodrow Wilson
I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight. -- Boris Johnson
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected. -- Samuel L. Jackson
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. -- Luis Fortuno
A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected. -- Jon Runyan
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history. -- Conrad Black
After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. -- Ari Fleischer
In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected. -- Kevin Costner
Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. -- Elliot Richardson
I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles. -- Matt Salmon
I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected. -- Alexander Downer
When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost. -- Theresa May
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. -- George McGovern
Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination. -- Dick Morris
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. -- Ed Gillespie
My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out. -- Dick Murphy
We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector. -- Noreena Hertz
I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. -- Kevin Costner
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. -- Ben Fountain
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. -- Jimmy Carter
I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected. -- Jaime Herrera Beutler
You're not a leader if you haven't been elected. -- Hillary Clinton
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected. -- Horace Greeley
My change in party will enable me to be re-elected. -- Arlen Specter
The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected. -- Mallory Factor
Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. -- Malala Yousafzai
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something? -- Grover Cleveland
Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected. -- Michael Bloomberg
Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. -- Everett Dirksen
We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change. -- Cindy Sheehan
One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected. -- Ted Cruz
So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing. -- Barack Obama
dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected. -- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected. -- Jon Runyan
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king. -- Don Henley
When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,' -- Geraldine Ferraro
I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can -- Kenneth Clarke
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not. -- Gloria Allred
We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people. -- Elizabeth Warren
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer. -- Jim Bridenstine
The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office. -- Bellamy Young
The fact is that Paul Ryan's job is what John Boehner's job was in 2012 when Mitt Romney was running. his job is to make sure the Republicans get re-elected. -- Kellyanne Conway
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years -- Robert Caro
When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.' -- Chellie Pingree
If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years. -- Orji Uzor Kalu
Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations. -- David Suzuki
The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind. -- Alexis Ohanian
But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A -- Mark Krikorian

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