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

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

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.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.