#wash

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#evening #going #i #insurance #joined

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. ↗

— Dick Morris

#art form #been #form #human #mean

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music. ↗

— Richard Morris

#awash #ironically #live #music #sacred

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#being #bob #carter #first #first time

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#first time #history #hold #ideology #monopoly

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#control #environmentalist #everything #happens #himself

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#angeles #attachment #because #being #change

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#essence #great #great ideas #hogwash #ideas

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed