The federal government does not have the legal authorities it needs to protect the American public from these kinds of threats. The threats posed by malicious drones are too great to ignore, it is not enough to simply tell operators of unmanned aircraft not to fly in certain areas; we must give federal law enforcement the authority to act if necessary.

Ron Johnson

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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

job great life world

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

Ron Johnson

far doing political success

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

more just look immigration

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

manufacturing trade want war

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

Ron Johnson

like social-security security social

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-saving more medical innovation

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

right like left political

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

nothing chance winning negative

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

Ron Johnson

make top election president

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

consequences need someone experience

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

Ron Johnson

will never climate-change change

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

Ron Johnson

coalition again need willing

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

realize control government enough

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

look constitution gold justice

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

Ron Johnson

promises never vote mind

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

anything vote support process

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

best positive culture history

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

Ron Johnson

side liberty freedom want

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