I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.

You are not a story, your life is a story and youare the writer, write an inspiring one.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

All the powers in the universe are already ours.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.