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If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.