#washington

The strength of America is not in Washington. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#strength #washington

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink. ↗

— Peter Welch

#delay #derail #often #too #washington

During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge. ↗

— Jeanne Kohl-Welles

#budget #businesses #challenge #continued #during

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#because #fight #fighters #fights #frankly

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#arabian #country #i #kill #rational

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. ↗

— William Greider

#leaks #routine #washington #whispers

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. ↗

— William Greider

#arsenal #awesome #death #founded #killing

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. ↗

— William Greider

#burnt #classes #disintegrating #governing #odor

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#battling #code #countryside #down #economic