Top 77 Scott Walker Quotes
#1. 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.
Scott Walker
#2. 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.
Scott Walker
#3. 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.
Scott Walker
#4. The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Scott Walker
#5. The music has to be as interesting. It has to keep taking you into places that you're at least not used to.
Scott Walker
#6. Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.
Scott Walker
#7. 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.
Scott Walker
#8. I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
Scott Walker
#9. 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.'
Scott Walker
#10. I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
Scott Walker
#11. There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.
Scott Walker
#13. 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.
Scott Walker
#14. 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.
Scott Walker
#15. In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
Scott Walker
#17. 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.
Scott Walker
#18. 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.
Scott Walker
#19. 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.
Scott Walker
#20. 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.
Scott Walker
#21. In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.
Scott Walker
#22. 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%.
Scott Walker
#24. The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.
Scott Walker
#25. Well, we're going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.
Scott Walker
#26. People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.
Scott Walker
#27. 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.
Scott Walker
#28. Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?
Scott Walker
#29. 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.
Scott Walker
#30. 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.
Scott Walker
#31. 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.
Scott Walker
#32. Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.
Scott Walker
#33. I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them.
Scott Walker
#34. You should ask the president what he thinks about America,
Scott Walker
#35. One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.
Scott Walker
#36. Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
Scott Walker
#37. 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.
Scott Walker
#38. My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.
Scott Walker
#39. 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.
Scott Walker
#40. 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.
Scott Walker
#41. You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.
Scott Walker
#42. The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.
Scott Walker
#43. About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
Scott Walker
#44. 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.
Scott Walker
#45. The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.
Scott Walker
#46. 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.
Scott Walker
#47. I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
Scott Walker
#48. I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things ...
Scott Walker
#49. 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.
Scott Walker
#50. 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.
Scott Walker
#51. 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.
Scott Walker
#52. 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.
Scott Walker
#53. It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.
Scott Walker
#54. My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
Scott Walker
#55. I have unbelievable support among Republicans.
Scott Walker
#56. Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.
Scott Walker
#57. 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.
Scott Walker
#58. 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.
Scott Walker
#59. We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.
Scott Walker
#60. 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.
Scott Walker
#61. More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
Scott Walker
#62. You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.
Scott Walker
#63. 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.'
Scott Walker
#64. 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.
Scott Walker
#65. 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.
Scott Walker
#66. We need someone to turn things around in America.
Scott Walker
#67. Matching sounds in your head is made a lot easier with all the technology. It is the nonelectronic noises that are challenging, as you have to find ways of communicating those to the people you're working with.
Scott Walker
#68. Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.
Scott Walker
#69. But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.
Scott Walker
#70. 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.
Scott Walker
#71. 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.
Scott Walker
#72. 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.
Scott Walker
#73. 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.
Scott Walker
#74. If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe.
Scott Walker
#75. 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.
Scott Walker
#76. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government, creates jobs.
Scott Walker
#77. 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.
Scott Walker
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
