Bill Scott Quotations

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

We've understood throughout the project that we cannot portray them as coming from a lifting-yourselves-by-the-bootstraps background with no resources. We do not want to portray them as coming from humble backgrounds.

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

My resolution is to run another marathon this year, so I'm looking forward to that, training with all of these great people and have a fun time.

It feels really good to win a game like this, because we have so many young guys. We had three sophomores starting on offense and two on the defensive line. They came out and got the job done.

It depends on the depth of the fire, if it's shallow, we can use water and dirt, if its deep, we got a long period of time.

That was just inexcusable. We can?t let them get a first down on that play, but we let them convert a bunch of third downs on that drive as well.

We don't feel there are major problems with breathing, unless there's a prolonged amount of time in the plume.

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Well, I've said I like being attorney general, but I'm not necessarily committed to being attorney general for the rest of my life.

Well, it would have been wrong for anybody who is in a law enforcement office, like attorney general, to take a position of political party boss.

We're excited to have them locate here, ... It's good for the community and the mall. Hopefully it will draw others to locate there. Businesses feed on each other. It should create a higher volume of traffic.

We got our (butts) kicked by a better football team.

Defensively, we made a couple of silly mistakes. Those were two easy runs we gave them early, but those were a couple of freshmen out there and conditions were tough.

Coach Dave Hess made a blocking adjustment on the offensive line that allowed us to run the ball. We put Nate Gingrich in at linebacker and he played with reckless abandon.

Density transfer is a great idea. I only wish it could be transferred to Orange County.

This is one of the best Christian festivals I've been to.

That is Matt?s call. If he sees that he can make it, he calls the fake. He made it easily.

I told Eric not to throw an interception or get sacked, just get it off. He made a great throw and Bryce made a great catch.

It's an amazing building. To be torn down to have a road put in is unfortunate.

It used to be contentious, and now we see working with our contractors as a partnership. We've had much more success.

I'm telling you Gingrich made the difference in the game. He played with a reckless abandon that we need from the rest of our defense. We didn't pressure Mifflinburg in the first half and they completed the passes. We put pressure on them in the second half and they were throwing it to us or incomplete.

City Hall in Chicago, the complete county machine in Cook County. Bernie Carey, the Republican state's attorney up there, is a lonely watchdog.

If he were here, he would have loved this. He loved basketball and basketball loved him. I wish he could be here tonight.

The Tribune likes me when I do the things that they feel agree with their editorial policy, and they dislike me when I don't agree with them.

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