Johnny Isakson

I was very proud of the reference you made to Poland reaching the 2.5 percent goal in terms of its share of funding for defense and NATO.

When you get to $20 trillion, you are talking about real money, as Everett Dirksen said a few years ago in Washington.

One of our biggest challenges as a country--and we got lots of them, but certainly our debt and our deficit are both big problems.

I think your role can be essential because the State Department and the soft power of our country is still the biggest strength we have got if we have a strong military backing.

I believe in is business, capitalism, and the fact that you do not tend to bomb people you trade with.

I hope you will lend America's weight and the influence that you have in that position any way you can to help the Hungarian people see to it that anti-Semitism is ruled out of Hungary and any other Eastern European country.

We are soon getting ready to open our embassy in Jerusalem, which is a huge issue for the Jewish people.

I really appreciate your statement in your opening remarks about being committed to anti-Semitism and seeing to it we do everything we can to address it.

It is a problem for everybody in the world, and it is going to get worse.

I think there is a deliberate and thoughtful approach presently underway.

It is a historic day for our country, for the Senate, and for the Congress. As we speak, the President of the United States is about to sign the bill that we passed on the floor of the Senate last night, which was the agreement on the…

I just wanted to get that on the record.

I think the parameters that we have laid out now for Congress and for the President of the United States are sufficient to act expeditiously if attacked.

It should be done always in consultation with the Congress, but it ought to be consultation not some mandatory hoop to jump over.

You do not want to tie your military's hands behind their back in a conflict.

It seems to me like some responsibility in the amount of advertising used, there is some way to measure that ought to be judged against the pharmaceutical companies.

The average constituent in my state, you ask them, 'What is your problem with the drug industry?' All of them talk about advertising.

I think it is a terrific idea because a lot of times, you do not know how well these things are going to work.

It incentivizes the drug company to go to the marketplace, go to the development of a drug in anticipation of getting something that works.

I have enjoyed working with Senator Casey on any number of children's-related and drug-related issues.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Georgia

I do think in instances like that I was accountable to my constituents, and I represented a very conservative district in Georgia, to explain to them that they were going to get on the train and go to Chicago or to New York or to…

We have to fund Amtrak. And I think it is the Board of Directors' responsibility to make sure that the things that we are funding and the things the government is funding for Amtrak is the best use of our tax dollars.

Well, Chairman Blunt and Ranking Member Booker and members of the Committee, it is a pleasure for me to be here today to introduce a great Georgian.

She talked about how proud she was for him to be serving under people like you and the leadership we have in our country.