Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

Lewis Grizzard

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

Lara Logan

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

Lance Morrow

The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.

Leland Ryken

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Linda Vester

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

Martin Bashir

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

Martin Bashir

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Maureen Dowd

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Maureen Dowd

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

Michael Gartner

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Martin Jacques

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Martin Jacques

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Murray Kempton

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

Mark Leibovich

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

Max Lerner

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Max Lerner

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

A. J. Liebling

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Robert Quillen

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Sidney Blumenthal