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.

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

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.

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

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.