He was a colleague. We all respect him. We feel bad for him, truthfully. This isn't good to see. I don't like to see this kind of public division and this thing play out in public. Ron Johnson More Quotes by Ron Johnson More Quotes From Ron Johnson 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. Ron Johnson jobgreatlifeworld Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success. Ron Johnson fardoingpoliticalsuccess 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. Ron Johnson morejustlookimmigration 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. Ron Johnson manufacturingtradewantwar Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme. Ron Johnson likesocial-securitysecuritysocial 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. Ron Johnson life-savingmoremedicalinnovation 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. Ron Johnson rightlikeleftpolitical 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 nothingchancewinningnegative We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires. Ron Johnson maketopelectionpresident 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 consequencesneedsomeoneexperience Never denied climate change. It has always changed and always will. Ron Johnson willneverclimate-changechange George H.W. Bush assembled a 'coalition of the willing.' We need to do that again. Ron Johnson coalitionagainneedwilling 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. Ron Johnson realizecontrolgovernmentenough 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. Ron Johnson lookconstitutiongoldjustice One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind. Ron Johnson promisesnevervotemind We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process. Ron Johnson anythingvotesupportprocess 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. Ron Johnson bestpositiveculturehistory I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom. Ron Johnson sidelibertyfreedomwant I’ve long championed restoration of voting rights immediately once someone has served their sentence, and I mean, honestly, even when someone is locked up. Ron Johnson What we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so that it's all evaluated so that we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken that are going to be going bankrupt. Ron Johnson
