Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Johnson - Page 2

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for women.

I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.

I'm an accountant. I'm a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I'm a U.S. senator.

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

There are a lot of young kids serving in Washington, D.C.: kids that are smart, hard-working, but they've never farmed. They've never run a business. They've never been in the private sector. They went from high school into college and right into Washington, D.C.

In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.

Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong. For a minimum wage, you will actually reduce the number of jobs available.

I'm not a political pundit.

What you don't want to do - if you're concerned about poverty, if you're concerned about providing opportunity - you don't want to rip the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity away from people.

I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

With honest discussion, free speech, let people's voices be heard.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on our children and grandchildren, I think that requires a pretty serious discussion, robust debate.

People oftentimes refer to me as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' So, I'm Mr. Johnson. I'm a complete outsider.

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

For nearly five years, I worked with Marquette University Law School and helped to administrate a community crime prevention initiative called Safe Streets. We used restorative justice practices to help reduce crime and violence in the Milwaukee community.

I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.

What we do not need are career politicians that simply run for office to be somebody with a big title. We don't need that.

You always want to help people out.

I've been working like a dog as a United States senator.

When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath.

I think it's extremely important that the citizens of Wisconsin know the positions I'm taking.

We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they're getting stronger. We should make them weaker.

The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

Successful ideas, they snowball.

There is something that happens when victims and offenders meet. Offenders and victims are able to see each other as human beings, with names and families.

You turn people around, one person at a time.

Russ Feingold is a career politician. He's addicted to it.

Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.

Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.