The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking.

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.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

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.

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.