Scott Walker Quotations

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

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

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

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

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

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

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them.

We need to have a national security that puts steel in front of our enemies. I would send weapons to Ukraine. I would work with NATO to put forces on the eastern border of Poland and the Baltic nations, and I would reinstate, put in place back in the missile defense system that we had in Poland and in the Czech Republic.

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

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

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

More so when I was playing defense in the minors, I'd make a pass up the ice and go off and change. I'd be sitting on the bench and they'd get the goal. They'd review it and you'd hear you got an assist and you were sitting on the bench. It can happen.

Obviously we want to put some wins together, but really it's more important that we start playing well again. Out of our last four games, at least that was a better effort. We played a really solid game against one of the really good teams in the league.

Obviously it's up to the coach, but I hope to be an effective penalty-killer and all those things. It's been one of my strong points that I've been able to give the team whatever it needs.

People who would have never thought they'd be here are.

Obviously they don't take losing at home very well, because it seems like every time we beat them there, they come back and beat us here. It's like a boxing match. You get a guy once and you know he's going to come back stronger and harder.

My legs have been able to stay active and now I really don't have any pain from the groin surgery. I've been able to get my skating back. I didn't really have that 100 percent before and that's really the key to my game.

Let's not kid ourselves. He's probably the No. 1 reason we are where we are.

Frankly we're a little concerned here about the popularity of the interest-only and no or low down payment loans. Everyone's situation is different, and they may be a good fit for some. But these kinds of loans can, I think, lead to people biting off more than they can chew.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Republicans are in charge of the House, Senate and the White House, ... so why hasn't more been done to control spending?

Over half the game was special teams, and that leads to a lot of trouble to get the flow of the game going. I think we had quality chances to get to it ... It's something we're going to have to work on.

I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

You didn't see the true Red Wings tonight, but the main thing tonight was to keep our game on track for the playoffs.

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.

You know it's all around the league right now ? the Predators are playing teams that are not in the playoffs. They should walk in. Honestly, sometimes those are as hard as games against teams you're battling for playoff spots.

We played real physical, with everybody contributing. It's not about one or two guys hitting. It's about one or two guys hitting every shift.

That was huge of management. And give Paul a lot of credit to come to a team with not a lot of well-known guys. But he saw an opportunity to join an up- and-coming team and help build a winner.

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages.

We still have work to do, ... I thought we got lackadaisical at some points. We had too many penalties.

We had some guys who really picked it up for us. I was very pleased with the way the guys filled in around the edges.

We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine - America's a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf.

We have four guys who definitely have the potential to be in the top 10.

We can't all of a sudden pack our tents up and go home. We have a guy who's quite capable of carrying us deep into the playoffs. That's what we expect.

We've still got time to turn things around. It's a long year. Getting that home-ice advantage would be huge for us and we want to earn it.

When we were in our infancy and playing great teams, we always somehow got a win out of them.

We've always had the rallying cry of, 'Hey, nobody out there thinks we can do it,' and that was fun. We've never really had a star player, and there's never really been a case of 'So-and-so didn't produce and that's why we're losing.' So it might take a little adjustment, but I think we're definitely a lot better team with him.

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.

We know we don't want to go back to Nashville down two games. They won a game in our building and we have to find a way to do the same thing here.

We need to get a win ? everything goes better with a win. Sometimes teams go into a lull here and there, but we need to nip it in the bud and get back on the horse.

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

I volunteered for the mission. I saw the bomb before I hit it. I didn't want anyone else to get hurt in the truck, so jerked the wheel for it to blow up on my side.

That's why it is called Food at First. We are trying to feed people first and then help meet their needs.

Pretty much, all of Sullivan's goals are goal-scorers goals. He is pretty talented.

This enables people to interface with people in town to make suggestions about where to get a job and bartering different skills like fixing a car for babysitting.

This is a team that has worked really hard to get to this point. Giant slalom is not our best event, so hopefully we can do much better in the slalom race.

If the owners are playing a high-stakes game of chicken, they'd be better off playing it with anybody else in the world besides hockey players. Because of all sports, we're probably the most stubborn, pig-headed players.

I just want to get back in and back up to speed. Maybe I won't be there right away, but after playing the last 10 games or so, I'd definitely expect to be 100 percent for the playoffs.

It's sad to think right now, but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than do the members of the United States Congress. And - and that has put our national security at risk.

They could stop my shot wearing a bathing suit and holding a pair of pliers.

I ran for governor because I was worried about my kids' future. Then, I took on the big government union bosses, and we won. They tried to recall me, and we won. They target us again, and we won. We balanced the budget, cut taxes, and turned our state around with big, bold reforms.

It held up pretty good. I played as physical as I could ? I had some hits and took some hard hits. I had a one-timer shot that I got most of and it didn't hurt.

By that time, we'll either be right there with Detroit, maybe a little ahead of them or in a really big hole. I think we're more confident going up there than we have been in the past. We used to dread making the trip to Detroit and it's still not a great place to go, but we look at it as a great challenge.

The voters in Wisconsin elected me last year for the third time because they wanted someone who aimed high, not aimed low. Before I came in, the unemployment rate was over eight percent. It's now down to 4.6 percent.

All in all, it wasn't a great effort. The mistakes are a cause of concern, but they were all correctable mistakes, mostly off draws. We have to make sure we are doing our assignments better and winning the draws.

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It's like a boxing match. We win a game up there and they train a little harder to play against us down here. The next time we play them we will train harder.

They had to pull them straight down, put the mouth guard in and lock it in there.

We showed we could play with them and score five-on-five, which was important. I don't know if it was a mental block or what, but it was good to get those. Guys were going to the net hard and it made a difference.

It means a lot to the players that the owners are getting in there and listening. I think when only Gary Bettman is in there and people think he's trying to run the whole thing, players sometimes get their nose out of joint.

They haven't been able to maintain a strong message out of Iraq. That sucked a fair amount of public confidence out. It's no one big thing, but these nips and cuts along the way have taken time away from the bigger focus they should be having.

I can win, and I'm the only candidate who can do it.

If he was indicted, that would have been a huge problem for the president. He would have been gone. Obviously there are other people there, but no one is like Karl Rove.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

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.

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

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

Melodies are far more interesting. They are there, in your face, in certain sections of the songs. People do complain about the melody thing, but we do hit patches of melody and beauty, as well as the other stuff.

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

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

I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

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

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.

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

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

People create jobs, not the government.

You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion.

I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to.

You should ask the president what he thinks about America,

You hear some people talk about border security and a wall and all that. To me, I don't know that you need any of that if you had a better, saner way to let people into the country in the first place.

We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty.