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" The voters in Wisconsin elected me last year for the third time because they wanted someone who aimed high, not aimed low. Before I came in, the unemployment rate was over eight percent. It's now down to 4.6 percent. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have unbelievable support among Republicans. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters. "

" 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. "

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

" I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them. "

" People create jobs, not the government. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. "

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

" I kept my promises. "

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" 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. "