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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "

" I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We need to have a national security that puts steel in front of our enemies. I would send weapons to Ukraine. I would work with NATO to put forces on the eastern border of Poland and the Baltic nations, and I would reinstate, put in place back in the missile defense system that we had in Poland and in the Czech Republic. "

" My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters. "

" 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%. "

" People create jobs, not the government. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "