John Breaux Quotes

#1. It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

John Breaux

#2. They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Bob Dylan

#3. I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

John Breaux

#4. Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Brene Brown

#5. I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

John Breaux

#6. I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.

Vinessa Shaw

#7. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

John Breaux

#8. He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

Herta Muller

#9. The merchant increases the speed of the city. The musician slows it down. The merchant intensifies the urban stress, the noise, the chaos. The musician makes you slow down, find your center. This holds true in all cities and countries.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#10. But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

John Breaux

#11. Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

John Breaux

#12. I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

Jack Osbourne

#13. When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

John Breaux

#14. You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

Bruce Lee

#15. My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.

John Breaux

#16. Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

John Breaux

#17. Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

John Breaux

#18. I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

John Breaux

#19. Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

John Breaux

#20. I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.

John Breaux

#21. I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

John Breaux

#22. Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

John Breaux

#23. And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

John Breaux

#24. But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.

John Breaux

#25. I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

Miriam Toews

#26. I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

John Breaux

#27. We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

John Breaux

#28. There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

John Breaux

#29. What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.

Bill Cosby