Quotes from Ron Johnson

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

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.

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

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

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.

I have a great deal of respect for Wisconsin workers.

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 guess when you take a look at the book 'Atlas Shrugged,' I think most people always like to identify with the main character - that would be John Galt. I guess I identify with Hank Rearden, the fella that just refused until the very end to give up.

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.

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

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

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for women.

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.

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.

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.

There are a lot of young kids serving in Washington, D.C.: kids that are smart, hard-working, but they've never farmed. They've never run a business. They've never been in the private sector. They went from high school into college and right into Washington, D.C.

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.

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

We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.