Breaux Quotes & Sayings

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future. — Kevin James Breaux

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser. — John Breaux

Would you tell a USA Olympic Team hopeful that did not qualify for The Games, to give up and try another sport? No. You would tell them to work harder. Train harder. Try again at the next Olympics.
However, that is not what we hear in life. When did it become okay to tell people to quit trying and give up? When did it become okay to promote hopelessness?
If we all believe that hard work will not pay off, that we cannot try again, that we should give up early ... well then ... imagine all he great things that will never happen.
I believe in hard work. I believe in dreams. I believe that you can fall and still get up. And no one can take that away from me. — Kevin James Breaux

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums. — Breaux Greer

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together. — John Breaux

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out. — Breaux Greer

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. — John Breaux

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together. — John Breaux

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. — John Breaux

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am. — Breaux Greer

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between. — Kevin James Breaux

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure. — John Breaux

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us. — John Breaux

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. — John Breaux

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. — Kevin James Breaux

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. — John Breaux

Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between. — Kevin James Breaux

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part. — John Breaux

And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. — John Breaux

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most. — Kevin James Breaux

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States. — John Breaux

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie! — Breaux Greer

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.' — John Breaux

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of. — John Breaux

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. — John Breaux

Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth. — Kevin James Breaux

My name is Kevin James Breaux and I am an author. Why does that always sound like I am introducing myself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting? — Kevin James Breaux

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction. — Breaux Greer

Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams. — Kevin James Breaux

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer. — Kevin James Breaux

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved. — John Breaux

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art. — Kevin James Breaux

If you're not writing, you're wronging. — Kevin James Breaux

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick. — Breaux Greer

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. — Breaux Greer

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana. — John Breaux

Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. — Kevin James Breaux

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better. — John Breaux

If you are not learning, you are not living. — Kevin James Breaux

I can take more pain than anyone. — Breaux Greer

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home. — Breaux Greer

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. — Kevin James Breaux

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority. — John Breaux

Write Makes Might! — Kevin James Breaux

Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted. — Kevin James Breaux

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all. — John Breaux