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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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You turn people around, one person at a time.

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We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

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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.

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To me, support versus endorse are two totally different things.

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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.

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I'm not a political pundit.

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We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.

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In an era of unprecedented medical innovation, we have to do more to ensure that patients facing terminal illnesses have access to potentially life-saving treatments.

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Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

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

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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.

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Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

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I have a great deal of respect for Wisconsin workers.

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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.

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The people that are proposing banning assault weapons, well, first of all they're already banned. Assault weapon is a fully automatic, those are already banned.

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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.

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

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

Successful ideas, they snowball.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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?

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

You always want to help people out.

Ron Johnson

In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson

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

Ron Johnson

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.

Ron Johnson