#washington

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#accusing #always #card #come #concerned

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference. ↗

— Liz Carpenter

#difference #four #i #learned #make

But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome. ↗

— Brad Carson

#agenda #clinton #difficult #edwards #extremely

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #came #chief #congressional #correspondent

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. ↗

— Howard Coble

#concurred #decisions #future #i #involvement

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight. ↗

— Joe Donnelly

#fight #hear #hired #i #joe

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#black community #boston #chicago #class #community

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#failure #just #success #success is #training

Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom #humor #washington #freedom

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all