Capitol Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  Barry Bostwick

  Numbers, Chance, Fourth

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• Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

  Bob Beauprez

  Hawks, Hills, Capitol Hill

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.

  Suzanne Collins

  New Year, Eye, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.199, Scholastic Inc.

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• What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?

  Suzanne Collins

  Waiting Around, Katniss, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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• Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Games, Wish

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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• But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brain, Songbirds, Weapons

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Katniss, Pieces

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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• "What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?" Finnick asks.
  "No," I say.
  "No," Finnick repeats. "Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He eyes Peeta for a moment. "Except maybe Peeta."

  Suzanne Collins

  Taken, Eye, Past

  "Catching Fire". Book by Suzanne Collins, 2009.

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• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

  James Patterson

  Running, Country, School

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• The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Catching On, Flames

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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