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" The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money. "

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" 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. "

" Elections have consequences. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message. "

" My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters. "

" Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City. "

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

" 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. "

" There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois. "

" 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. "

" So let me be clear, 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. "

" So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "