#washington

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

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#change #doubting #got #happen #i

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#aide #association #because #becoming #being

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week. ↗

— Jim Costa

#exploration #gas #limits #long #natural

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#america #bailouts #economy #employers #failed

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

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get