#washington

And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#history #us #washington #money

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#simile #strikes #washington-post #anxiety

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

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. ↗

— Fred Allen

#bad #competition #good #good actor #great

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#crossed #december #delaware #evening #general

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#again #disgusting #doing #father #favors

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#because #business #graduated #harvard #high

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#best #case #example #finest #happened