Quotes by Scott Walker

About Scott Walker:

Scott Kevin Walker is the 45th Governor of Wisconsin, serving since 2011, and a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination to the 2016 presidential election.
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One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

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

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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.

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

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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People create jobs, not the government.

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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.

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

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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 aga...

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I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.

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Author Bio

  • NameScott Walker
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, Governor of Wisconsin
  • AliasesScott Kevin Walker; Scott K. Walker
  • BornNovember 2, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician