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" I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term. "

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" 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. "

" You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do. "

" 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. "

" 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%. "

" I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs. "

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

" Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. "

" It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk. "

" Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. "

" Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks. "

" My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters. "

" I have unbelievable support among Republicans. "

" There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages. "

" What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers. "

" We need someone to turn things around in America. "

" We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine - America's a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf. "

" People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. "

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

" More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way. "

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

" Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics. "

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

" 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. "

" My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. "

" Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there. "

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

" I ran for governor because I was worried about my kids' future. Then, I took on the big government union bosses, and we won. They tried to recall me, and we won. They target us again, and we won. We balanced the budget, cut taxes, and turned our state around with big, bold reforms. "