#washington

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim. ↗

— Linton Weeks

#libraries #washington-post #information

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#case #got #government #how #i

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

— Henry Adams

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#much #opposed #pay #public #public relations

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#any #court #eliminate #fought #legislatures

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore. ↗

— Tori Amos

#average #average person #faith #i #know

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#lie #nixon #reagan #tell #truth

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #i think #lot #nasa #people

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#air force #always #astronomy #aviation #best

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#capacity #effort #need #our #strengthen