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I kept my promises.
Elections have consequences.
I have unbelievable support among Republicans.
My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.
You should ask the president what he thinks about America.
You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.
Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.
Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?
There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.
We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.
If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.
Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.
The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.
People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.
You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.
One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.
I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.
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.
Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.
I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.
The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.
We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
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.
We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.
It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.
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%.
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.
Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.
Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.
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.
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.'
It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.