#washington

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#fight #hear #hired #i #joe

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#black community #boston #chicago #class #community

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#down #field #i #later #office

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ↗

— William Hull

#aid #arrested #artillery #been #british

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.' ↗

— Dennis Moore

#happening #hope #i #kansas #me

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that. ↗

— Mick Mulvaney

#ceiling #debt #debt ceiling #did #embarrassed

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#his #house #lincoln #nothing #practically

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #consider #days #elite #establishment

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often