#washing

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#california #cliff #culturally #economically #fiscally

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#i #inside #my own #own #party

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#each #goals #got #now #opposite

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#congressman #cut #every #getting #going

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#debate #echo #like #more #often

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time. ↗

— Laura Dern

#goes #greatest #mr #smith #time

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#far #home #number #them #things

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#ever #first #got #hell #here

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. ↗

— Greg Walden

#did #electricity #i #month #much

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get