Quotes of: Washington-state Keyword

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

Chris Paul

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Alan Greenspan

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Brent Scowcroft

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Chester Brown

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Carl von Clausewitz

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Georges Cuvier

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

George Osborne

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Joshua Chamberlain

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Mike Quigley

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

Mark Leibovich

Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Sonia Sotomayor

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Woodrow Wilson

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

John Philip Sousa

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

John Philip Sousa

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

Kamala Harris

We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.

Michael Nutter