#wash

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bible #box #coat #even #female

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#learn #live #most #other #people

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#christians #how #morning #post #statistic

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#american #american interests #closely #cooperate #eyes

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#bank #card #dishwasher #done #first

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#america #american #could #effort #everything

I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process. ↗

— Mike Ross

#big #bills #care #costly #country

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#five #grown #hit #immigrant #increase

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. ↗

— David Remnick

#four #history #i #interested #language