Capitol Quotes - Page 2

• If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Games, Cities

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.674, Scholastic Inc.

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• "I'm not their slave," the man mutters.
  "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their Games."

  Suzanne Collins

  Tired, Winning, Men

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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• My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Home, Years

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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• So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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• The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

  Grace Abbott

  Moving On, Agency, Government

  Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

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• For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Fun, Book, Play

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• I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

  Stone Gossard

  School, Firsts, Hills

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• According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

  Ron Fournier

  Lice, Hills, Capitol Hill

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• I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

  Sheena Easton

  Hate, Video, Accepted

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• Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

  Sheryl Crow

  Artist, Together, Kind

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• The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

  Pamela Anderson

  Kentucky, States, Cruelty

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• Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, Sight, September 11

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

  Paula Poundstone

  Lines, Domes, Constitution

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• So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Plans

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.978, Scholastic Inc.

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• The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

  Charles Schumer

  Matter, Administration, Domes

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• The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.

  Juan Williams

  Father, Party, Garden

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• Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

  Mark Udall

  Cutting, Climbing, Numbers

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• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  Matt Taibbi

  People, House, Labyrinth

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.21, Black Cat

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• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Jobs, Wall

  "Kill the JOBS Act!" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Leader, Kind

  "The Why: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Bob Schieffer

  Independent, White, House

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• A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'

  Jack Abramoff

  Phones, Years, Law

  "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 4, 2012.

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