72 Quotes by Dan Johnson

We are morally adrift, spiritually bankrupt, enamored with the ever-growing catalog of false idols that is consumerism, politically gullible, rage-drunk, media fattened, and ripe for a culling at the hands of one tragedy or another that will no doubt rip the golden dome of American life off its rotten foundations.

We brats bear the hurt of war. We insulate it and keep it warm. Our bodies and souls are receptacles of an unimaginable heartache. We have a way of looking out at the world from behind the walls of an emotional castle built to protect a lonely treasure.

Despite the many cinematic qualities of life in America, this country is not a film. It lacks the real-time clarity and cohesive story-telling that makes a silver-screen epic so palatable. Instead, it is a muddy, confused, noisy, unwieldy thing that we are forced to come to grips with after the fact and often erroneously.

We'll see what progress can be made on Tuesday.

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

There are ways out there to shuffle the budget in order to give these folks what they need in order to stay.

Maybe we want to build it in five years, maybe in 10 years.

I am somewhat surprised. I found it to be quite a learning experience.

I can't explain it. I'd just go up there and no matter what it seemed like there were 15 guys in the field and I hit it to one of them or strike out. I was just miserable. ... The only reason I'm still here is they saw something there and stuck behind me. I'm very thankful I was able to work it out.