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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
History
World
Power
Few
Say
Carried
He
George
George Washington
Often
Who
Whole
Washington
Away
As a Navy SEAL, our motto is obviously 'Never Quit,' and our only easy day was yesterday. Send in the Navy SEALS - I think it's time to send the Navy SEALS to Washington!
Ryan Zinke
Time
Day
Yesterday
Think
Our
Easy
Only
Never
Never Quit
Obviously
Motto
Send
Quit
Seal
Seals
Navy
Washington
Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.
Shelley Moore Capito
Time
Character
You
Strong
Be Nice
Be Strong
Nice
Weak
More
Trait
Same
Same Time
Being
Mean
Being Nice
Washington
Necessarily
Need
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
Marianne Williamson
Constitution
Political
Address
Mention
Parties
Wrote
George
His
George Washington
Political Parties
Essence
Against
Them
Us
Warned
Farewell
Washington
Founders
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
Adam Ross
Work
Great
Late
Once
Mine
Remained
Pointed
He
Over
Said
Passage
Caution
Stop
Stanley
Washington
Professor
University
What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Time
People
Spend
Would
Rather
Hollywood
Fascinating
Washington
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
Benjamin Netanyahu
You
Madness
Stupid
Think
Thinking
Other
Rely
New
Like
Taliban
Method
Were
Iran
York
Irrationality
New York
Radicals
Washington
Al
Bomb
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Bill Moyers
Time
History
Power
First
Ideology
Monopoly
Our
First Time
Hold
Theology
Washington
I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
Bob Woodward
Great
You
People
Phone
Post
Looking
Gone
Every
Air
Telephone
Telephone Number
Phone Call
Phone Number
Dreaded
Announced
Know
Call
Return
Talking
Go
Source
Reporter
Washington
Washington Post
Lives
Thing
Things
Night
Number
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
C. L. R. James
World
Has-Been
All The World
Been
Modem
Converted
Mecca
Washington
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.
Charles Krauthammer
Best
Post
Country
Think
Liberal
Considering
Town
Balanced
Around
Editorial
Tradition
Quite
Page
Washington
Washington Post
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
Chuck Todd
Day
Culture
Old
Congress
Ways
System
Some
Revolt
Seniority
Against
Public
Might
Ingrained
Old Ways
Washington
Keep
Actually
We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.
Dave Ramsey
People
Problems
Looking
President
Our
Ability
Obviously
Because
Got
Fix
Stop
Really
Successful
Who
Washington
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Home
Too
Everyone
Wrong
Them
Far
Washington
Things
Number
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
Government
Country
Think
Civility
Partly
Because
Getting
Disgusted
Decline
Washington
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Grace Abbott
Home
Great
Sometimes
Though
Had
Feel
Been
Traffic
Get
Jam
Washington
Night
The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.
Helmut Schmidt
Relationship
You
Claim
About
Mention
No-One
Knows
Talking
Special
Washington
British
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
Alone
Progress
President
Evidence
Evolution
Darwin
Upset
Grant
Washington
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.
Howard Schultz
People
Sense
Think
Mediocrity
Crisis
Recognize
Emergency
Drifting
Fact
Towards
Concern
America
Anymore
Biggest
Urgency
Meaning
Washington
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Philippines
White
White House
Enough
Once
States
Francisco
Sign
Out
Would
Hawaii
Take
Between
House
Nor
Break
San
San Francisco
Japan
Should
Even
Washington
United
United States
March
Treaty
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan
Wisdom
Will
Our
Has-Been
Alliance
Attempt
No-One
Since
Days
Policy
Been
Maxim
Avoid
Washington
Ever
Dispute
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
Larry Kramer
Gay
People
Wonderful
World
Pride
Power
Wish
Building
National
Lesbian
Think
Enormous
Lobby
Benefit
Ours
Rightfully
Could
Most
Concerns
Wonderful Things
Being
Us
Washington
Why
Things
Association
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.
Michelle Obama
Life
Mom
Me
Simple
Dinner
Exhausted
Before
Our
Sundays
Stay
Date
Both
House
Joys
Because
Movie
Either
Barack
Soccer
Moving
Grandma
Games
Awake
Washington
Filled
Saturdays
Night
Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.
Michelle Obama
Life
World
Girl
My Life
Half
Society
Our
Resources
States
Those
Impact
Potential
Empowering
Because
Around
Educated
Providing
America
Being
Mankind
Then
Realizing
Skills
Full
Full Potential
Who
Washington
Population
United
United States
United States Of America
Million
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Pat Robertson
God
Great
Me
Power
Nation
Our
Say
Monument
Has-Been
One Nation
Great Nation
Seems
Look
Been
America
Washington
Symbol
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
Paul Robeson
Time
Mother
Father
Own
State
Ancestors
Delaware
Born
Crossed
My Own
Troops
Quaker
Baked
George
Bread
Your
Washington
Slave
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