Quotes of: Washington-post Keyword

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

Josh Schwartz

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.

Jesse Ventura

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

J. C. Watts

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

David Douglas Duncan

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

Deb Fischer

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Dorothy Height

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

Darrell Issa

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

David Korten

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

David Korten

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

David Korten

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

James Forrestal

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

James Forrestal

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Jim Fowler

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

J. Edgar Hoover

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Jesse Jackson

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Els Borst

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

Ed Koch

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

Eliot Spitzer

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

Ginny Brown-Waite

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

Glenn Greenwald