#washington

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#city #conference #dinner #foot #go

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days. ↗

— Anson Jones

#be prepared #circumstances #city #days #deemed

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ. ↗

— Dave Barry

#washington-dc #humor

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 wish somebody would combine tasers and dildos, and test the devices out on all the politicians in Washington DC. Well, all the politicians except Barney Frank, who’d actually derive pleasure from the experiment.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #pleasure #politicians #politics #taser

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#dam #environmental #instance #larger #mine

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#could #court #day #days #flames

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#been #effort #had #i #justified

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget. ↗

— Andrew P. Harris

#budget #fight #healthcare #i #never

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