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Why is Poroshenko going for a second term? So that he doesn't get a first.
Volodymyr Zelensky /
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I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!
Mark Russell / Satirist
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Good Business Believe
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Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
Mark Russell / Satirist
Business
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Bills
Clinton
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Bill
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So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
Brent Scowcroft / Former National Security Advisor
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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
Robert Dallek / Historian
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By The Time
Illusions
Largely
Rolls
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
Ed Koch / Former United States Representative
Commitment
President
President Obama
States
Term
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Jewish State
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If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier / Journalist
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Scandal
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Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
Ron Fournier / Journalist
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Barack
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Mount Rushmore
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Wait
Mount
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills /
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President Obama
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Domestic
Manufacturers
Union
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I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore / American Politician
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Feet
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Executive
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I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
Sanford I. Weill / Executive
Home
Teacher
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Mentoring
Public School
School
Term
Home Me Remember
Teachers
Public
Experiences
Room
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Bumper
Giving
People
President Obama
Term
Thinking
Enough People Will
People Will Enough
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In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
Jim Sensenbrenner / United States Representative
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President Bush
Term
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It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.
Maureen Dowd / Columnist
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Latinos
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In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.
Juan Williams / Journalist
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Jimmy
Johnson
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Bids
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Ford
George
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.
Ross Douthat / Author
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You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.
Claire Mccaskill / United States Senator
Missouri
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Accountable
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I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Cameron
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David
Elected
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Presidents at the end of their second term - Reagan with the Iran-contra affair, Clinton with Monica Lewinsky - often find they are bedevilled by hostile Congressional investigations.
Gavin Esler / Television Presenter
Affair
Hostile
Monica
Congressional
Investigations
Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
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I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Might
Said
Term
Three
Wheat
Wonderful
Full
Just Be
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I will complete my second term, but I have made no decision as to my plans after Congress except that I will continue in public service, including as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
Tim Griffin /
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Donald Trump is either going to resign, he's going to be removed from office by impeachment, or I'm going to beat him in 2020. But one way or the other, he's not going to serve a second term.
Michael Avenatti /
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Donald Trump
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I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
Ed Rollins / Political Consultant
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Administration
California
Summer
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Nixon
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At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
Ron Fournier / Journalist
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Eras
Polarization
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Willingness
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Obama
Govern
Maintain
Wonders
Relationships
Required
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The special-counsel regulations were drafted at a unique historical moment. We were approaching the end of President Bill Clinton's second term, and no one knew who would be elected president the next year.
Neal Katyal /
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Drafted
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After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
Karen Mills /
President
President Obama
Seamless
Staying
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Transition
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Administrator
Confirmed
Ensure
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Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
Jerry Falwell / Pastor
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Gas
White House
Brunt
Gallon
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I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.
Dick Murphy / Politician
Prepared
Special Interests
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Influenced
Interests
Psychologically
Rule
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During the second term of the Clinton presidency... I thought, 'Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.' I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.
The Ultimate Warrior / Professional Wrestler
Clinton
Literal
Little Kid
Presidency
States
Term
United States
United States Of America
Behaving
Model
Role
Role Model
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Second Term
Undignified
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
Sally Quinn / Author
Running
Administration
Black
Black Hole
Clinton
Jolly
People
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Clinton Administration
First Term
Hole
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I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Inauguration
Tragic
George W
Reagan
Respectfully
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Sworn
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If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
Paul Begala / Consultant
Allies
Campaigns
Congress
Judiciary
Likes
Political
Retribution
Term
Since
Seen
Bush
Campaign
Compliant
Embark
Federal
George
George W
George W. Bush
Richard
Likely
Nixon
Richard Nixon
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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
Ron Fournier / Journalist
Barack
Behalf
Campaigns
Consensus
Guarantees
Headache
President
Term
Thanks
Victory
Obama
Barack Obama
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Capital
Won
Mandate
Polarized
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Daring to make films of any kind and thus invite the possibility of ridicule was an internal battle of mine for many years as I worked on the screenplay for what would become 'Dear White People' beginning at the end of George W. Bush's second term.
Justin Simien / Film Director
Battle
Daring
Dear
Possibility
Ridicule
George W
Internal
Invite
Screenplay
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Thus
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I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.
Dick Cheney / Former Vice President Of The United States
Capacity
Libya
Nuclear
Term
Technology Believe I Believe
Dealing
Effective
First Term
Issue
None
Proliferate
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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 / Political Figure
Leadership
Running
President Bush
Strong
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Agenda
Bush
Ralph
Ralph Nader
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Runs
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At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office.
Robert Dallek / Historian
Term
Truman
Categorical
Few People
People End Always
Predicted
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Love it or hate it, Obamacare is the law of the land. It was passed by Congress, signed into law by President Obama, declared constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and ratified by a majority of Americans, who reelected the president for a second term.
Hank Johnson / U.s. Representative
Court
Majority
President Obama
Supreme
Supreme Court
Term
Constitutional
Passed
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
Joe Klein / Journalist
Boys
Foolish
Most Powerful
Nicknames
Powerful
Realism
Term
Two
Bomber
Bush
Charles
Developed
George
George W
William
Journalists
Overtake
Patented
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If President Obama were to enroll in an American government class, the professor would mark him absent on most days. In the first 100 days of his second term, the president has failed to show up to class, take notes and complete the daunting task of rising to the challenges facing him.
Mercedes Schlapp /
Absent
American Government
Notes
President Obama
Daunting
Enroll
Failed
Facing
Professor
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A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
James Dobson / Author
Government
Alarms
Barack
Disturbing
Guarantees
Limited Government
Millions
Possibility
President
President Barack Obama
Term
Obama
Alarm
Barack Obama
Watched
Campaign
Conservatives
Consider
Prospect
Revere
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On the 26th of December of last year, I took office for my second term as prime minister. And it is the first time ever since then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, during the occupation period, that a prime minister is taking this position for the second time with a number of years in between.
Shinzo Abe / Prime Minister Of Japan
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First Time
Last Year
Occupation
Office
Position
Prime
Prime Minister
Term
Time First Time First
Period
Minister
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
Ban Ki-Moon / Diplomat
Banner
Blue
Development
Expectations
Human Rights
Life Saving
Millions
Peacekeeping
Relief
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Flag
Meet
Millions Of People
Prepare
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During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
Robert Dallek / Historian
Absence
Allegations
Cleveland
Deceived
Palate
Term
White House
Disguised
Jaw
Mouth
Second Term
Upper
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The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn't win a second term.
Rick Perlstein / Historian
Carter
Courageous
Federal Reserve
Hiring
Inflation
Jimmy
Levels
Manageable
Term
Attributable
Brought
By The Time
Chair
Charge
Directly
Induce
Re-Election
Recession
Reserve
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Yes, Barack Obama had his clashes with the press. I witnessed those first-hand covering the second term of his administration. But we did not have Barack Obama on almost a weekly basis referring to the press as the enemy of the people and accusing reporters of treason and calling legitimate stories fake news.
Jim Acosta /
Accusing
Administration
Barack
Calling
Covering
Enemy
Fake
News
Referring
Reporters
Stories
Term
Treason
Obama
Almost
Barack Obama
Basis
Fake News
First-Hand
Legitimate
Press
Second
Second Term
Weekly
Witnessed
Yes
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I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.
Michael Oren /
Administration
Appreciate
Clinton
Committed
Effort
John Kerry
President
Term
Totally
Obama
First Term
Greatly
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
John
Obama Administration
Palestinians
Search
Second
Second Term
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As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster in the Senate. In fact, several of Obama's second term priorities are not ideas in search of a majority - they are majorities in search of an up-or-down vote.
Ari Melber /
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Priorities
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