Quotes of: Washington-state Keyword

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.

Gough Whitlam

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

Helen Clark

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

Hank Johnson

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

Ike Skelton

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Candace Parker

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

Daniel Snyder

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

Tony Goldwyn

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Timothy Noah

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Ted Williams

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

Wellington Mara

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

Marion Jones

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Armistead Maupin

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Emanuel Cleaver

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Joe Biden

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

Hjalmar Branting

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

Omar Bongo

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Sargent Shriver