Quotes from Ron Johnson

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

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

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

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

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.

Successful ideas, they snowball.

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.

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

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.

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

I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.

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

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

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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