Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Martin Bashir

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

Maureen Dowd

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Maureen Dowd

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students. A true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Michael Kinsley

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Mickey Kaus

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.

May-Britt Moser

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

Rhianna Pratchett

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

Rick Santelli

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

Rick Santelli

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

Rick Santelli

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

Ron Suskind

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Sidney Blumenthal

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

Martin Parr

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Martin Parr

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Martin Parr

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

Martin Parr