Scott Walker Quotes

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

I’d cut down government spending and I’d move to keep down the size of government, too.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

If you like big government, move to Massachusetts.

The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

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.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.