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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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%.

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.

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

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.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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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In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues.

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.

I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives.

You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.

I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn't call me to do a specific thing, God hasn't given me a list, a Ten Commandments of things to act on the first day. What God calls us to do is follow his will. And ultimately that's what I'm going to try to do.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.

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%.

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.

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.