But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

Flies are the dead man's revenge.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

That which is excellent endures.

Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!

Ideology is the science of idiots.

The mind I love must have wild places.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.