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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 joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term."
"I have unbelievable support among Republicans."
"Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics."
"If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world."
"You should ask the president what he thinks about America."
"You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion."
"I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white."
"Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it."
"In Wisconsin, we understand people create jobs, not the government. Those who choose to employ - be it one or many - are to be appreciated and encouraged, so as to prosper and increase employment for others in the future."
"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."
"It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go."
"There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois."
"Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with."
"The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with."
"The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to."
"I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in."
"In times of crisis 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."
"Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality."