Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Johnson

I have a great deal of respect for Wisconsin workers.

We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process.

The people that are proposing banning assault weapons, well, first of all they're already banned. Assault weapon is a fully automatic, those are already banned.

As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.

I think justice Scalia is really the gold standard of what a justice should be. Somebody, regardless of how he feels on an issue, is going to look at the text of the Constitution, look at the text of the law, and make his judgment.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

What happens outside of the campaign is outside of my control.

In an era of unprecedented medical innovation, we have to do more to ensure that patients facing terminal illnesses have access to potentially life-saving treatments.

I really don't think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.

I have to - I think an endorsement is something incredibly important. I would never do it just strategically. I would have to have full confidence that I have got no questions about the person.

I am going to certainly endorse the Republican nominee, and obviously it looks like that will be Mr. Trump.

Never denied climate change. It has always changed and always will.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

There is a real problem in terms of the refugee flow, the ability of ISIS to infiltrate those refugee flows, our inability to track them.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.

I guess when you take a look at the book 'Atlas Shrugged,' I think most people always like to identify with the main character - that would be John Galt. I guess I identify with Hank Rearden, the fella that just refused until the very end to give up.

I don't respect phoniness.

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

You could establish along the zones of the coast of the Caribbean in Honduras gorgeous resorts zones. If we could help them do that, they could start rebuilding their economy.

George H.W. Bush assembled a 'coalition of the willing.' We need to do that again.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

The fairest and most democratic process in terms of Supreme Court nominees is let the American people have a voice.

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

I don't like outside group ads. I don't like attack ads. I particularly don't like them now that I'm in the process and they are being used against me.

Iran is Iran. It has a regime that is destabilized in the region, that is spreading terror.

To me, support versus endorse are two totally different things.

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

It's more complex than just slapping up a wall. We have got to take a look at all the complexities in terms of eliminating the incentives for illegal immigration.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

In Wisconsin, we have got a lot of agricultural products that are exported. We have a lot of manufacturing products that are exported. I don't want to engage in a trade war.

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.

The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.

We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.

Donald Trump's a change agent. So am I.

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.

From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about... how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.

This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates. He's the only person that really has a chance to take the winning number of delegates into the convention.

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

The whole climate change debate gives - and there are all kinds of quotes from adherents of and promoters of climate change - the reason they're doing it is it's such a great opportunity to control, you know, pretty much, government, and control your lives.

I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

It doesn't make any sense to continue to elect people like Ron Kind or Russ Feingold, individuals that literally are dedicated to growing the federal government.

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.

How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it's a little bit warmer.

One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.

Any individual that would be running for office, if they would say something that crosses a line and, in the end, is so significant, so major, that you couldn't support them, I'd have to withdraw support from any individual, okay?