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'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Lets face it not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

I am the underdog - the 5-foot, 6-inch wrestler. The kids don't say, 'I can beat Rey.' Instead, they say, 'I can be like Rey.'

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I dont have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

One must care about a world one will never see.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I don't have to try to be outrageous. I am outrageous.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.