Johnny Isakson Quotes

#1. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

Rachel Kushner

#2. You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

Johnny Isakson

#3. In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

Johnny Isakson

#4. Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Johnny Isakson

#5. It was just my point that I saw altogether too much of the people we knew. My

Willa Cather

#6. Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Johnny Isakson

#7. I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

Johnny Isakson

#8. I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.

Johnny Isakson

#9. Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Michelle Paver

#10. When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem,

Johnny Isakson

#11. You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

Tom Brady

#12. If you want people to be Good to you then stop being Good to them.

Honeya

#13. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

Johnny Isakson

#14. My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

Johnny Isakson

#15. Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

Alexander MacLaren

#16. We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Johnny Isakson

#17. My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.

Jeff Kinney

#18. I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Jesse Ventura

#19. You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Johnny Isakson

#20. Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

Johnny Isakson

#21. We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

Johnny Isakson

#22. Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

Eddie Vedder

#23. The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

Johnny Isakson

#24. You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

Johnny Isakson

#25. I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson

#26. Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.

Johnny Isakson

#27. No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

Tony Robbins

#28. I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

Penelope Cruz

#29. Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses ... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Johnny Isakson

#30. Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

John Newman