Quotes from Ron Johnson

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

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.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

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

Iran is Iran. It has a regime that is destabilized in the region, that is spreading terror.

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

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

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.

George H.W. Bush assembled a 'coalition of the willing.' We need to do that again.

As long as ISIS is not overtly losing, they'll continue to be perceived as winners.

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

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.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

Living a minimalistic lifestyle is becoming more and more popular as people realize materialistic items hold no true value. Making memories that last a lifetime and forging relationships with the people you live with is a treasure that you can't put a price on.

I have to - I think an endorsement is something incredibly important. I would never do it just strategically. I would have to have full confidence that I have got no questions about the person.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?