Ron Johnson

“Successful ideas, they snowball.”

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

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

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

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

“You turn people around, one person at a time.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We have to get the oil where the oil is.”

“You always want to help people out.”