Johnny Isakson

There are two great motivators in life. One is fear, and the other is reward.

If we continue to promise more than we can deliver and do not reform the system, one day the game is going to be up and the American people are going to be left holding the bag.

As a former Governor of Kansas, I have a question for you.

The actuarial clock is ticking on our country in terms of debt and deficit, and all of us in both parties are going to have to sit around a table and talk about some very difficult discussions.

I personally think calling Social Security and Medicare an entitlement is a little bit wrong, because I have paid 1.35 percent of my income for Medicare since 1968 and 6.2 percent of my income for FICA taxes for Social Security.

I was one of eight Republicans who met for a series of 8 weeks with Denis McDonough.

In either case, that is a fraud against the taxpayer.

The confidence the American people have in the Internal Revenue Service is the key to voluntary compliance.

I concur with your opening statement, talking about how tax simplification is the key to this.

Thanks to all of you for what you do for kids and what you do for education in America.

We don't want to, in any way, legislate what FDA should approve. But we want to get a more transparent and a more effective system of evaluating these important ingredients for this terrible cancer.

We'll certainly work with you and your office to be a positive influence. We don't want to make the decision, but we want to get the decisions to be made, and we know that's your responsibility.

We are seeing all of these different efforts producing good value for our veterans in terms of timeliness and accuracy.

Are there contractual limits or union limits, or what kind of limits do you have, to reprimand or correct or otherwise dismiss an employee for inappropriate activity, mismanagement, or contributing to the failure of the system to deliver…

Well, you are doing it the right way because I did it the wrong way in the State of Georgia and I paid a terrible price for it.

Well, because of what you have done on this, I wanted the record to reflect accurately what you said in both cases.

I believe you have stated before the hearing in Atlanta, as well as personally to me on a number of occasions, that there were mismanagement issues that contributed to the suicides in Atlanta.

We are grateful for your service and grateful for what you do.

Veterans have sacrificed so much already and deserve world-class health care.

Sixty-thousand of their members, culinary workers in Las Vegas whose take-home pay has gone down because of the effects and the cost of the coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

I know what I like to look for in a judge, and that is, somebody that is going to call it like they see it; they are going to call it down the middle.

I associate myself with all the remarks made by Senator Chambliss.

I cannot understand how the administration can say that it wants to accelerate projects, when we get a last-minute hold.

The President has called for streamlining and accelerating the permitting process for infrastructure initiatives, and the budget includes funding for a new interagency infrastructure permitting improvement center to help with these efforts.

I think if we prohibit investment advice for savers, we are going to have even fewer savers than we had before, right?