Quotes By Scott Walker

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.

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.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

People create jobs, not the government.

My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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%.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

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.

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.