I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

It is virtually impossible to compete in todays global economy without a college degree.

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

I'm still swimming.

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

You may shoot me with your words you may cut me with your eyes you may kill me with your hatefulness but still like air Ill rise.

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.

There are certain people in our business that you don't replace - Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzyewski, and you don't replace John Wooden, either.

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.