#washing

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#face #facts #fashion #fearless #go

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#power #up #washington #worships

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Eric Massa

#because #bill #care #come #deciding

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #denzel #denzel washington #dumb #get

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

#civility #country #decline #disgusted #getting

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#connecticut #favors #for the people #get #going

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#crucial #deadly #eastern #expedite #experienced

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