Johnny Isakson Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't remember ever hearing of someone running for office and getting elected by saying that if the worst natural disaster in the history of the country hit, the government wasn't going to spend a dime to help the innocent citizens.

I think it's unfortunate that letter may have sent the signal there wasn't unity when in fact there was,

will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.

What's happening today is not going to help us, because the refineries have had to shut down and the offshore wells have had to shut down.

Drilling for natural gas is both environmentally sound and critically needed,

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

They're anxious to get back home, but they are also anxious to continue their affiliation with the National Guard.

It wasn't anything that we did, ... It's just one of those things that happened.

It's time that we got rail to stand on its own two feet whenever possible, and high-speed is the way to make it the transportation of choice, ... Transportation isn't any good if it doesn't solve a commuter's problem.

I love hearing from all my constituents, but I particularly love hearing from Georgia's children,

If you've got a proposition that gives you the opportunity to save the pensions of hardworking employees and protect the taxpayers from not having to fulfill that obligation, that's a win-win, ... The taxpayer doesn't get stuck and the company honors its benefits.

He's like I am. He's trying to be part of the debate, and in the end, I hope both of us are.

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

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.

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.

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