If the Legislature enacted every initiative (Doyle) proposed tomorrow, it would be less than $15 million -- out of a $50 billion state budget.

The governor is focused on what families in Wisconsin are focused on, which is how they afford their health care, how they pay their heating bills and how they fill their gas tanks.

The governor is confident his veto will be upheld in the Assembly. He does not think people in Wisconsin will be any safer carrying loaded weapons around.

We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature.

Jim Gibbons has always been an outsider. The tax restraint initiative went to initiative because the Legislature wouldn't consider it. I think the Republicans, even though they don't like him, are going to have to come to the realization that he is the guy.

To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest.