I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.