2010 Taipei Mayoral Race
Although he had been considered a strong candidate to helm the newly created New Taipei City. Su announced on March 3, 2010, of his intention to run for the Taipei City Mayor. Su vowed that should he win, he would serve out the entire term (through 2014) effectively ending any talks of a presidential run in 2012. Su eventually lost the race to the incumbent mayor Hau Lung-pin.
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“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)