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Legislators Washington Quotes By Mike Lofgren

...More to the point, do their representatives and senators in Washington deliberately prioritize the stated requirement of the Pentagon and CIA above the most basic need of their constituents? Yes, if those legislators have developed the unfortunate tendency to go into a trance every time someone utter the magic phrase "national security." In truth, it happen often enough, and many times of the course of my career I saw Congress respond to that occult incantation like iron filing drawn to a magnet. p 64 — Mike Lofgren

Legislators Washington Quotes By Steven Brill

[Ted] Cruz railed against his fellow senators for not appreciating the risk that Obamacare would destroy healthcare for America's families ... Cruz then lodged a more general complaint against his Senate colleagues who, he said, seemed more concerned with "cocktail parties in Washington, D.C." than with their constituents. Referring to calls that he said were pouring in from around the country, begging legislators to resist and defund, Cruz noted, "It is apparently an imposition on some members of this body for their constituents to pick up the phone and ask for assistance." As I heard him say that, I picked up the phone and called Cruz's local constituent service office in Houston. "Could someone there give me information about how to enroll in Obamacare?" I asked, when I was put on the phone with one of the senator's case workers. "No. We don't support the bill, and think it's a bad idea," I was told. — Steven Brill

Legislators Washington Quotes By Billy Graham

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers. — Billy Graham

Legislators Washington Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Legislators Washington Quotes By James T. Patterson

Truman charged that Republicans were "Wall Street reactionaries," "gluttons of privilege," "bloodsuckers," and "plunderers." GOP legislators in the 80th Congress, he said, were "tools of the most reactionary elements" who would "skim the cream from our natural resources to satisfy their own greed." Dismissing Dewey, "whose name rhymes with hooey," Truman said, "If you send another Republican Congress to Washington, you're a bigger bunch of suckers than I think you are." "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the people shouted back. "Pour it on!"59 — James T. Patterson

Legislators Washington Quotes By David Letterman

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38. — David Letterman

Legislators Washington Quotes By Jennifer Donnelly

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. — Jennifer Donnelly

Legislators Washington Quotes By John Hope Bryant

Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people. — John Hope Bryant

Legislators Washington Quotes By Jennifer Tilly

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die. — Jennifer Tilly

Legislators Washington Quotes By Carlton D. Pearson

As Hitler did, those who would bend the plowshare of religion into a sword would doubtless do the same with skin color, language differences, ethnic origins or sexula orientation. The need for power and allies always finds a way. The use of religion always comes in handy in facilitating such viciousness. — Carlton D. Pearson

Legislators Washington Quotes By Ward Just

...it was easy to forget that Washington was just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento, legislators and lobbyists and bureaucrats and their clerks working and reworking the sodden language of government in order to distribute the spoils. — Ward Just

Legislators Washington Quotes By George Packer

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him. — George Packer

Legislators Washington Quotes By David Platt

Suppose another time you are making a big decision in your life, and you need help. You have a couple of different options before you, and you need guidance to decide which way is best. So you ask God for help. But he doesn't answer with guidance. Instead he answers by sending the Holy Spirit, who is our Guide.12 God sends the Helper, who will live in you and not only tell you what decision to make but also enable you to make that decision. Yet — David Platt

Legislators Washington Quotes By Ken Lozito

Always remember that fate uses us to its own ends, but it will never take away our right to decide. Choose wisely, and choose quickly. Death comes swiftly to those who tarry in the middle of the road. — Ken Lozito

Legislators Washington Quotes By Smedley D. Butler

In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State. — Smedley D. Butler

Legislators Washington Quotes By Gray Davis

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators. — Gray Davis

Legislators Washington Quotes By John Sarbanes

At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. — John Sarbanes

Legislators Washington Quotes By George Washington

The men who mine coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick cotton and heal the sick and plant corn - all serve as proudly, and as profitably, for America as the statesmen who draft treaties and the legislators who enact laws. — George Washington

Legislators Washington Quotes By Noam Chomsky

I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions. — Noam Chomsky

Legislators Washington Quotes By Robert M. Gates

I would listen with growing outrage as hypocritical and obtuse American senators made all these demands of Iraqi legislators and yet themselves could not even pass budgets or appropriations bills, not to mention deal with tough challenges like the budget deficit, Social Security, and entitlement reforms. So many times I wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred years and can't pass routine legislation. How can you be so impatient with a bunch of parliamentarians who've been at it a year after four thousand years of dictatorship? — Robert M. Gates

Legislators Washington Quotes By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Legislators Washington Quotes By Jasper Fforde

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny. — Jasper Fforde

Legislators Washington Quotes By Charley Reese

Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people. — Charley Reese

Legislators Washington Quotes By James Fant

His mother hated his father. Perhaps being hated by your wife was something he inherited. — James Fant

Legislators Washington Quotes By Laurie Viera Rigler

It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer. — Laurie Viera Rigler

Legislators Washington Quotes By Helen Boswell

Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one. — Helen Boswell