Capitol Quotes - Page 3

• It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.

  Nick Kroll

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

  Gore Vidal

  Ordinary, Hills, Capitol Hill

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

  John Gimlette

  Cities, Diplomats, Sometimes

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• On my radio show Chris Christie came to the defense of Ted Cruz, noting that - I guess at a rally, that - one of those Iran rallies on Capitol Hill, I believe even Donald Trump, according to Christie, had acknowledged that, you know, Ted Cruz of course was eligible, and just because he was born in Canada.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Iran, Defense

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

  Gregory Corso

  Punishment, Feels

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The focus of President Trump's administration will continue to be to have a safer America, to have a more prosperous America, and to continue to advance the president's agenda, both on Capitol Hill and through executive action and carry that message all across the country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, America, Focus

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the relationships that we [with Donald Trump] developed on Capitol Hill are the reason why he's asked me to be a part of the team that's working to move our agenda forward in the House and in the Senate.

  Mike Pence

  Team, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I do think that part of the reason why [Donald Trump] asked me to run with him and gave me the opportunity to serve with him was informed by my 12 years of experience on Capitol Hill and my years as governor of the State of Indiana.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Law, Vision, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You`ve got James Comey on camera on Capitol Hill saying, - no, it is not much less of an offense than Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is far more serious. It was prosecuted.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Cameras, Saying No, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

  George Packer

  Feelings, Unions, Hopeless

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. November 3, 2016.

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• As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

  Ashley Greene

  Dating, Abuse, Foundation

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hills, Capitol Hill, Seniority

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

  Luis Gutierrez

  House, Demand, Building

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

  Shane Filan

  Different, Lucky, Labels

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• Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

  Greg Lake

  Humble, Giving, Way

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• The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

  Ron Chernow

  Art, Book, Character

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• In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

  David Nevins

  Memorial, Trying, Washington Monument

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• I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, "The Progressive" magazine, December 1, 2005.

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• Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Vision, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Pride, Echoes

  Francis Bacon (1855). “Francisci BAconi de Verulamio, ...: Novum organum, sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturæ”, p.98

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• I've been to Washington many times over the years for stories, and it always seems remarkably the same. More the same than the rest of the country. It's almost like they dress the same as they did 20 years ago. The same old guys are sitting outside the same dirty, dingy secret offices in the Capitol that you're not allowed to go in.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Dirty, Years

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

  Mike Huckabee

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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