#wash

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#clinton #hillary #influential #may #most

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#exercise #invisible #power #real #rulers

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. ↗

— Robert Frost

#carried #few #george #george washington #history

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. ↗

— David Frum

#people #process #punishment #understand #washington

Rich people march on Washington every day. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#every #every day #march #people #rich

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. ↗

— Kenny G

#college #coltrane #i #influence #jazz

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

#between #bureaucrat #draw #line #magic