Quotes from Scott Walker

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.

I have unbelievable support among Republicans.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.'

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.

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

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

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

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

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.

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.

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

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