Ron Johnson

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

“I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.”

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

“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.”

“Some stimulus is not a bad thing.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.”

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

“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.”