Quotes 181 till 200 of 206.
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We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.
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We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
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What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
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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.
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When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.
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When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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William Sylvanus Baxter paused for a moment of though in front of the drug-store at the corner of Washington Street and Central Avenue.
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