#washington

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#businesses #ends #families #make #meet

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #course #does #each #genesis

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me. ↗

— Joe Biden

#me #never #someone #telling #telling the truth

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. ↗

— David Brinkley

#city #filled #important #people #washington

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#compromising #conservatives #disagree #doing #i

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! ↗

— John Mason Brown

#circles #city #goes #how #laid

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail. ↗

— Dean Cain

#denzel #denzel washington #eva #hot #mix

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken. ↗

— Herman Cain

#broken #change #federal #federal government #government