The task of choosing a successor to Clinton will be just as tough.
Europe ought be much easier to crack, but turns out to be just as tough in its own way.
And it's not just going to be really tough for those who live in the capital area but for those working on Inauguration Day.
"It's just going to be a tough race, " he said.
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The first 12 weeks can be pretty rough, what with the feeling of sickness and lethargy, and towards the end it can be tough just because of the weight of the baby.
If you want to show that we can stand up to these terrorists, that they can't frighten us, they can't affect us, that Americans are just too tough to be affected by that, well, then come to New York and make that point.
They deserve all of us here in Washington to be thinking every single day, how can I make things a little better for them -- which isn't to say that everything we do is going to be perfect, or that there aren't just going to be some big, tough challenges that we have to grapple with.
"Playing well in Paris isn't totally out of the question, it's just going to be a little tough, " he added.
The players are not bothered who we play because they know that every team will be extremely tough just 80 minutes away from Old Trafford.
Looking at taxes and spending as a share of GDP shows just how tough it will be for the parties to reach a fiscal compromise.
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In case you had any doubts that 37-year-old James Murdoch is worthy of our Names You Need to Know in 2011 project, the young executive recently showed just how tough he can be.
The next night, it's just a tough one, and a tough locker room to be around.
UN's overstretched peacekeeping department is expected to remind Mr Annan, who already knows the facts all too well, just how tough peacekeeping in Congo would be.
Just getting workers to the rigs will be tough: some of them will sit 300km (185 miles) off the coast, requiring helicopters to carry three times their normal fuel.
"Together, we had a very clear message: 'We are not going to be tough on budgets at home just to come here and sign up to big increases in European spending', " he said.
We have played them in double-headers before with 50, 000 people watching so, whichever way it will be, it will be tough, but I'm just pleased we have a ticket in the lottery at the moment.
Now, let me just close by saying this -- 2012 is going to be tough.
And my hope is, is that this is just the beginning of your commitment to what is going to be a tough road ahead over the next 18 months.
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The president's announcements last week about military detainees and his plans for Guantanamo is just the latest example of how it becomes tough for Democrats to be seen as tough on security.
Now, look, obviously I've learned this year politics can be a tough business, but there are times where you just can't help but laugh.
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For those of us who have been privileged to contribute to that service, and to have benefited in the process from Ms. Forbes' nurturing, mentoring, and occasional tough love, we can only pray that just one voice will be stilled by her death, not that of many others.
But I want to be honest, given the magnitude of the housing problem out there, that there are still going to be pockets of areas where the housing values have dropped so much that it is still going to be tough for a lot of people, and we're just going to have to work our way through this as the economy improves.
"We're just delighted that we've managed to win what was always going to be a tough game, " said Smith.
But you're going to have just this constant drumbeat, because of the campaign ahead, and it's going to be tough for the president to shout above it.
"I think we have to be tougher just as a team in general, not get pushed around, just making the tough plays, the game-winning plays, " Triche said.
It is just me, but I imagine if you have a hungry brood watching you that hour or so can be tough.
"It was tough out there because they are the best in the world and I was just lucky to be in the race, " said Farah.
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