Quotes by Ron Johnson - Page 2

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.
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Election
President Obama
Seven
Conservatives
Fiscal
Retires
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The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.
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Administration
Intimidation
Aims
Further
Obama Administration
Pattern
Regulatory
Undeniable
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Many of us have felt that sense of desperation - of urgency - when we learn that we or someone we love is fighting for their life.
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Desperation
Urgency
Life Love Love Is
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You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.
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Defeated
Contained
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Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.
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Demonize
Realm
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The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.
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Administration
Benghazi
Attack
Involve
Surrounding
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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.
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Relation
Size
Measure
Metric
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Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.
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Broken
Fixing
Manufacturing
Solved
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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.
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Flow
Inability
Refugee
Track
Flows
Infiltrate
Real Problem
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I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.
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Immune
Packages
Pay
Benefit
Employees
Unrealistic
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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.
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Antarctica
Arctic
Florida
Texas
How Many People
Warmer
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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.
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Business
Government
Impact
Smart
Time Business Government
Rules
Minimize
Regulations
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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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Approximate
Intrusive
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If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.
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Debt
Debt Ceiling
Increase
No Reason
Spending
Ceiling
Deficits
Whatsoever
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When it comes to judicial nominations, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are fond of reminding Republicans that elections have consequences.
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Barack
Judicial
President
President Barack Obama
Reminding
Senate
Consequences
Obama
Barack Obama
Elections
Democrats
Republicans
Fond
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I don't like outside group ads. I don't like attack ads. I particularly don't like them now that I'm in the process and they are being used against me.
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Ads
Attack
Being Used
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Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.
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Trust
Critical
Infrastructure
Terrorist
Trust Me
Attack
Seriously
Terrorist Attack
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There is something that happens when victims and offenders meet. Offenders and victims are able to see each other as human beings, with names and families.
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Able
Human Beings
Offenders
Beings
Meet
Victims
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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.
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Attractive
Investment
Ought
Risk-taking
Standpoint
Wisconsin
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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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Assault
Banned
Automatic
First Of All
Fully
Weapon
Proposing
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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.
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Dedicated
Federal Government
Elect
Ron
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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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Illegal
Illegal Immigration
Immigration
Incentives
Slapping
Complexities
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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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Innovation
Life Saving
Unprecedented
Ensure
Facing
Illnesses
Patients
Potentially
Treatments
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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.
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Manufacturing
Wisconsin
Agricultural
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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.
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Democratic
Innocence
Presumption
Democratic Societies
Societies
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You could establish along the zones of the coast of the Caribbean in Honduras gorgeous resorts zones. If we could help them do that, they could start rebuilding their economy.
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Caribbean
Gorgeous
Honduras
Rebuilding
Zone
Establish
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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.
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Endorsement
Strategically
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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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Demagoguery
Destructive
Helpful
Political Spectrum
Sides
Spectrum
Harmful
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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.
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Bottom
Concerned
Poverty
Providing
Rip
Ladder
Rung
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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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Available
Minimum
Minimum Wage
First Of All
Reduce
Wage
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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.
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Healthy
Observers
Polling
Stations
Support
Vote
Allowed
Both Parties
Certainly
Check
Fraudulent
Neither
Parties
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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.
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Employers
Immigrants
Incentives
Labor
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Supportive
Workers
Guest
Lower
Specific
Wage
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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?
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Crosses
Okay
Significant
In The End
Withdraw
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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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Gold
Gold Standard
Standard
Regardless
Text
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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.
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Authority
Burden
Debate
Debt Ceiling
Discussion
Grandchildren
Increase
Robust
Ceiling
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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.
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Federal Government
Manage
Prioritize
Business Career
Prevent
Properly
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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.
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Candidates
Delegates
Governor Romney
Recognition
Romney
Winning
Convention
Governor
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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.
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Atlas
Character Look People
Always Character Look
Fella
Hank
Identify
Main Character
Refused
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For nearly five years, I worked with Marquette University Law School and helped to administrate a community crime prevention initiative called Safe Streets. We used restorative justice practices to help reduce crime and violence in the Milwaukee community.
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Initiative
Milwaukee
Streets
Nearly
Practices
Reduce
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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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Climate
Climate Change
Debate
Great Opportunity
Promoters
Quotes
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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.
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Incentives
Legislation
Products
Unintended Consequences
Washington
Different Perspectives
Intended
Perspectives
Understands
Unintended
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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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Private Sector
Serving
Hard-Working
Sector
Young Kids
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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.
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Best Way
Engagement
Population
Attacks
Communities
Immigrant
Prevent
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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.
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Arrogance
Great Job
Smarter
Life Great World
Angels
Liberal
Progressives
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When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath.
Ron Johnson /
Bible
Constitution Of The United States
Domain
January
Oath
Obligation
Raised
Senate
Solemn
Branch
Defend
Defending
Joined
Placed
Right Hand
Serve
Swore
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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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Branches
Confirmation
Filling
President Obama
Senate
Supreme Court
Vacancy
Voters
Gain
Supposedly
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