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'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.

I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.

There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.