Quotes By Scott Walker

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 kept my promises.

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

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.

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.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

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.

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.