My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!

There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have to put your money on Gordon,

But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans. And that -- that is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune that can come to us on earth.