#washington

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

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C. ↗

— Luke Scott

#case #country #crime #crime rate #gun

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#asking #assessing #discussions #important #important issue

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#dealers #left #make #new #washington

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. ↗

— George Stigler

#graduated #i #next #next year #northwestern

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#character #check #china #diplomatic #everybody

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#because #either #extremely #important #iran

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#covered #find #front #journalists #kid

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat. ↗

— Washington Irving

#revolution #washington #life