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George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
Robert Dallek
Depression
War
Path
Nation
Sets
Preserves
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Sees
Through
Democratic
Lincoln
George
George Washington
Roosevelt
Washington
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
Obligations
People
World
Liberty
Our
Our People
Moral
Constitutional
Economic
No-Win
Protect
Representatives
Bankruptcy
While
Turmoil
Wars
Washington
Bringing
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul
Assumes
Settlement
Everyone
Ourselves
Must
Madison
Some
Compromise
Leading
Between
Leading Role
Involving
Foreign
Israelis
Role
America
Crafting
Conflicts
Against
Explicitly
Warned
Jefferson
Washington
Play
Palestinians
In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The reason we're here is to serve the American people.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Work
Day
Every Day
People
Lost
Every
Easy
Go
Forget
Get
American
Often
Process
American People
Reason
Washington
Why
Serve
Here
Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.
Sarah Steelman
Good
Everything
Say
Claire
One Thing
About
Another
Because
Opponent
Very
Which
Washington
They Say
Thing
Inconsistent
Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
Ted Cruz
Corruption
Embodies
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Washington
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
Tom Brokaw
Work
Together
People
Political
Our
Everywhere
System
Folks
Main
Main Street
Go
Wall
Wall Street
Political System
Happened
Work Together
Ask
Washington
Why
Street
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
Wavy Gravy
Time
You
Promises
Power
President
Press
Release
Out
Running
City
Crowd
Arena
Nobody
Printed
Campaign
Handed
Up
Convention
Republican
Them
Taxes
Much
Kansas
Kansas City
Should
Working
Your
Washington
Keeps
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson
Man
Every
Carefully
See
Give
He
Takes
Him
Office
Whether
Either
Swelling
Who
Washington
Growing
Grows
Watch
Every Man
The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
P. J. O'Rourke
Doctor
Words
Wife
Lawyer
Most
Frightening
Help
Agree
Washington
Consensus
Two
Need
Bipartisan
If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
Donald Trump
Time
You
Says
Prices
OPEC
Over
Look
Calls
Go
Going
Anybody
Anymore
Mean
Your
Washington
Gasoline
As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.
Barack Obama
Work
Trust
People
Better
President
Making
Committed
Sent
Us
Who
Washington
Rebuilding
Here
We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
Aaron Schock
Buy
Best
Health
Family
People
Care
Young
Nothing
Pay
Every
Back
Telling
More
Share
Instead
Fair
Fair Share
Make
Health Care
Get
American
Young People
Them
Plan
Us
Should
Choose
Washington
Letting
Every American
Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
Aaron Swartz
Good
You
Good Things
Typical
Way
Wealthy
Find
Make
Bunch
Happen
Who
Companies
Agree
Washington
Now
Things
Things Happen
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
Clearly
Built
Mock
Endless
Series
Washington
Palaces
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
Adam Clymer
Book
Looking
Back
Out
Correspondent
Came
Subject
Chief
Times
Stood
Congressional
Reasons
Washington
Kennedy
Ted
Ted Kennedy
Two
There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
Adam Clymer
Gone
Too
Back
Way
Easy
Easy Way
Record
Casually
Putting
Know
Off
Turn
Far
Really
Standard
Washington
Things
I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
Adam Hasner
Great
People
Met
Every
Corner
State
Some
About
Great People
Had
Failures
Been
Discussion
Washington
Traveling
Florida
Honest
My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
Adam Hicks
Me
Mind
Parents
Jim
Jim Carrey
Supporters
Opened
Major
Look
Up
Denzel
Jack
Denzel Washington
Jack Nicholson
Craft
Helped
Washington
Nicholson
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
Adam McKay
Government
Big
Lobbyists
Corporations
Press
Worthless
Purchase
Crush
Leaving
American
Screwed
Created
Washington
Media
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
Ahmet Ertegun
Me
First
Say
Because
Up
Anybody
Where
Grew
Ask
Meaningfully
Inclination
Washington
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.
Alan Shepard
Man
Opportunity
Space
Everything
Project
Out
Fine
Given
Involved
Go
Were
Get
Wanted
Whether
Turned
Choose
Washington
I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington.
Alberto Gonzales
Government
Time
Experience
Thought
Made
State
State Government
My Time
Had
Part
Liked
Effort
Difference
Being
Different
Really
Washington
Enjoyed
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
Alec Baldwin
Party
Selected
He
Voted
Along
Judges
Lines
Up
Five
Bush
Elected
Who
Washington
I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq's Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the train fare to get to rehearsals.
Alesha Dixon
Money
Before
Earn
Out
Jobs
Signing
Record
Record Deal
Had
Part-Time
Taking
Deal
Years
Five
Train
Duo
Get
Just
Worked
Fare
Rehearsals
Washington
Four
Started
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
Alex Pareene
Man
Impress
Rich
Society
Christopher
Late
Type
Easy
Bore
Generally
He
Mainly
Cultivated
Lot
Friends
Essayist
Being
Certain
Electrified
Who
Washington
Hence
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