Education Quote by Johnny Isakson

Policy language rarely sounds like a moral demand, but Isakson sneaks one in with the plainest verbs on the menu: "must", "better", "all". The line is engineered to feel obvious, which is precisely its power. By framing road safety as an education problem, he shifts the cause of crashes from fate or isolated "bad apples" to a collective, fixable deficit. "All drivers" dissolves the usual partisan targets and demographic stereotypes; nobody gets to stand outside the responsibility circle. That universality is strategic, because it lets a politician talk about regulation without saying "regulation."

The subtext is also a careful dodge. "Educating" sounds gentler than enforcement, redesign, or limits on driving itself. It places agency on individuals and training systems rather than on car manufacturers, roadway engineering, or legislative choices that tolerate speed, distraction, and weak licensing standards. It's the classic public-safety bargain: promise action while keeping the terrain palatable to voters who bristle at punitive measures. Education is a solution that flatters the audience ("you can learn") instead of accusing it ("you must be punished").

Context matters: Isakson built much of his career in Georgia, a car-dependent state where mobility is identity and necessity. In that setting, calling for safer roads has to respect driving as everyday life, not a vice to be curtailed. The sentence reads like a bipartisan bridge: compassionate, incremental, and broad enough to cover everything from teen driver training to anti-DUI campaigns, while leaving room for harder policy steps if the public is willing to follow.