#washing

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#bill #care #consumed #democrats #going

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#agent #brother #international #jeff #now

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. ↗

— Russell Baker

#astonished #cold #cold war #communist #culture

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#always #football #football team #gone #i

Washington newspaper men know everything. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#know #men #newspaper #washington

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. ↗

— Evan Davis

#contracted #door #government #heart #here

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female. ↗

— Geena Davis

#being #causes #even #fact #female

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington. ↗

— Rob Bishop

#believe #belongs #best #best way #create

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. ↗

— Rob Bishop

#game #just #political #revolting #spin