Quotes of: Capitol-hill Keyword

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Murray Kempton

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

Mara Liasson

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Mignon McLaughlin

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Mignon McLaughlin

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

May-Britt Moser

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Mignon McLaughlin

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

Robert Novak

I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.

Rhianna Pratchett

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

Rhianna Pratchett

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

Rebecca Skloot

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

Rick Santelli

They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.

Robert Scheer

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Robert Scheer

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Shannon L. Alder

What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.

Sidney Blumenthal

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

Sidney Blumenthal

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Stephen Bayley

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

Stephen Bayley

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Martin Parr

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Martin Parr