#wash

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. ↗

— Edward Koch

#albany #bucks #cents #costs #fly

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post. ↗

— Tony Kornheiser

#gigs #got #i #now #post

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ↗

— David Korten

#brainwashing #capitalist #defense #economics #excesses

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments. ↗

— Joel Kotkin

#go #hope #lies #monuments #never

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#believed #college #fun #god #got

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dog #friend #get #want #washington

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#city #easy #first #forget #got

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#already #clout #concerned #daily #daily lives