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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You always want to help people out.

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

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

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.

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

Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.