The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

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

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

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.