Washington Hogwallop: Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
I never had a doubt that I would make it to the NBA, even when I wasn't playing.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
