#washington

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference. ↗

— Liz Carpenter

#difference #four #i #learned #make

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome. ↗

— Brad Carson

#agenda #clinton #difficult #edwards #extremely

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. ↗

— Ed Case

#country #different #failure #hawaii #leadership

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #came #chief #congressional #correspondent

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. ↗

— Howard Coble

#concurred #decisions #future #i #involvement

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#classroom #dearly #economic #else #everyone

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

#earliest #father #happiest #i #john

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#hollywood #people #rather #spend #time

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#agenda #bankrupting #clear #country #democrat

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#begin #came #department #i #i came