Scott Walker Quotes
It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
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.
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.
The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.
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%.
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.
You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.
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.
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.
I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
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.
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.
Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.
I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.
The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.
