Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isaksonis the senior United States Senator from Georgia, in office since 2005, and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he represented Georgia's 6th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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They're anxious to get back home, but they are also anxious to continue their affiliation with the National Guard.
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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.
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Drilling for natural gas is both environmentally sound and critically needed,
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will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.
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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.
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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.
It wasn't anything that we did, ... It's just one of those things that happened.
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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.
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You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.
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I think it's unfortunate that letter may have sent the signal there wasn't unity when in fact there was,
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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.
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He's like I am. He's trying to be part of the debate, and in the end, I hope both of us are.
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When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem,
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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.