Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

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.

It is a fact of life that when you are small, people expect little things from you. But when you've done a great thing, people are amazed.

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

The purpose of life is to glorify God through our various pursuits.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with.