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.

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 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.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

The best way to show true gratitude for all our blessings is to be genuinely happy.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.