I think people realize I'm truly an outsider.

You don't get further outside than I do going into Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump's a change agent. So am I.

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.

It's not law-abiding gun owners that are the problem here - it's Islamic terrorists.

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.

What happens outside of the campaign is outside of my control.

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

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

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.

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 absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

I don't think we can do anything about controlling what our climate is.

We have to get the oil where the oil is.

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.

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

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.

Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.

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.

I'm going to be voting for Donald Trump. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he wins.

If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.

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.

Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme.

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.

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.

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.

Any president is going to need extremely good advisers.

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

When I feel there's a door open, you always walk through it.

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.

The Obama administration's hostility to school choice programs is well known.

The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.

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

Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.

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.

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.

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

Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.

I've been working like a dog as a United States senator.

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'm an accountant. I'm a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I'm a U.S. senator.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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