If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to …

Woodrow Wilson
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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). The papers of Woodrow Wilson
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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). The papers of Woodrow Wilson

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