154 Quotes by Scott Walker

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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