The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

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.

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.