Words matter. These are the best Ron Johnson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin’s voters.
Donald Trump’s a change agent. So am I.
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.
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 outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action – or lack of action – before, during, and after the attack.
I think people realize I’m truly an outsider.
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.
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.
I have a great deal of respect for Wisconsin workers.
You don’t get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.
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 don’t think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.
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.
I think it’s unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.
Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.
I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.
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’ve been working like a dog as a United States senator.
Some stimulus is not a bad thing.
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.
The federal government is way larger than it should be.
I’ve certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.
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 really don’t think that the public-sector employees should be unionized.
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.
I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.
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.
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.
What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.
I don’t respect phoniness.
We are in perilous territory the stronger Iran gets. And they’re getting stronger. We should make them weaker.
We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.
If you’re an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I’d use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.
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.
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.
I’m going to be voting for Donald Trump. I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.
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.
One of the promises I made when I ran was, I’ll never vote with my reelection in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they’ll continue to be perceived as winners.
I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.
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.
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.
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.
Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.
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.
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.
In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.
When I feel there’s a door open, you always walk through it.
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.
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.
Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.
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.
Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.
What happens outside of the campaign is outside of my control.
Never denied climate change. It has always changed and always will.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here – it’s Islamic terrorists.
