Capitol Quotes - Page 4

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

  Barry Bostwick

  Numbers, Chance, Fourth

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• I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

  Tony Snow

  Hate, Naughty, Mail

  "Foley's Lurid E-Mails". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. October 2, 2006.

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• I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Greek, Keds, Happenings

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  I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

  Ron Paul

  Office, Liberty, Hills

  "The Draft: Just Say No" by Ron Paul, original.antiwar.com. February 17, 2009.

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• God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Saint

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• You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'

  Luis Palau

  God, October, Never Forget

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

  Dick Durbin

  Powerful, Believe, Banking Crisis

  "Dick Durbin: Banks “Frankly Own The Place”". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

  Barack Obama

  Congress, Members, Happens

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

  Henry Kirke White

  Weed, Solitude, Savages

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and Cable burgers hard by the Golden Gate, Dixie burgers in the sunny South and Yankee Doodle burgers in the North....We had a Capitol Burger - guess where. And so help us, in the inner courtyard of the Pentagon, a Penta burger.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Yankees

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• It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fall, Writing, Rome

  Memoirs of My Life ch. 6 (1796)

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• Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Territory, Hills, Capitol Hill

  "Is Perry Anderson lost in the lobby?" by Alan Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

  Molly Ivins

  People, Connections, States

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• I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Records

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• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Wall, Voice, People

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• When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Texas, America, Example

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

  Rufus Choate

  Oracles, Temples, Common

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345

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• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Children, White, Two

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• The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, United States

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

  Gary Reilly

  Heart, Years, Occupation

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• Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.

  Byron York

  Taken, Night, Years

  "Obama's disconnected, out of touch, in denial State of the Union" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. January 21, 2015.

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