When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time. . . and my father would bring paper home. . . and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns. . . that was my favorite
Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington
Washington is dominated by big money.
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. '
I am here [in Washington] following through on what I pledged to do. That's all I'm doing.
Barack Obama says he's gonna stay in Washington, but presidents don't stay in Washington. Presidents, they get out of there as fast as they can, 'cause it's like a prison to them. And Michelle Obama's even said as much about the White House. So the fact that he's gonna stay there has always told me that he's gonna stay there to protect his legacy, whatever it is, and that he's not gonna observe the age-old protocols of standing aside and staying silent for awhile while the new president takes office.
In politics, the definition of a real man is different from, I would say, outside Washington or outside the establishment. I don't think that's even arguable. But human nature is what it is, and men (straight men) want women. And it's always a challenge. It's never a piece of cake. You're rejected. You know Woody Allen? One funny thing he really said. Somebody said, "Woody, what has success meant?" He said, "It means being rejected by a higher class of woman. " Life is filled with rejection. Men - nobody - women, they don't like rejection.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.
Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.
I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.
I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D. C. , in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.
When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.