Famous Quotes & Sayings

Argus Hamilton

Jackie Robinson was honored in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. What a ceremony. It doubled the number of statues in the rotunda because when it was mentioned that he was a lifelong Republican and Richard Nixon supporter, the Democrats turned to stone.

Jim Jordan

He's easily the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill, and nobody's in his weight class. He exerts the kind of discipline that hasn't been seen in decades.

E. B. White

He was in the cockpit when the plane went down. We're very proud of him and all the folks who made sure our nation's Capitol was not a target. They did not take out a symbol of our democracy.

Leon Panetta

He gets a pass, they don't. And that's obviously created a lot of nervousness on Capitol Hill.

Judy Woodruff

That's a sharp contrast to Gore's 'People v. Powerful Business,' delivered last week on Capitol Hill, ... is in the hands of an elite, which embodies wealth and power and represents them at the expense of citizens.

You don't see the white smoke coming out of the Capitol tough.

Mike Pence

There's a lot of miles between the saying and the doing here on Capitol Hill.

Kevin McCarthy

There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.

Chuck Todd

Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?

As always we're always pleased when someone selects to give us publicity and show off our site a little bit. I think in 'Car and Driver' it is appropriate to talk about Harding. He was the first president to ride in a car from the White House to the Capitol for his inaugural.

Jim Kolbe

The mood on Capitol Hill is not a pleasant one, ... There's a divisiveness that I think we haven't seen in a long time and I worry about that. I like to think that I've been a moderating influence on that.

Peter May

Disasters -- flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes, and so on -- have a schizophrenic political life, ... Before, or between, events you don't have people marching on city hall or state capitol steps saying, 'Save us from the hurricane, earthquake etc.'

There is significant support for it on the Capitol Hill. There may be some Congressmen who have doubts about it. But I am convinced that the US Congress will support the agreement,

David Peterson

We got really into this project, researching, going to the Capitol and delivering letters to all the Senators.

There's a feeding frenzy for transparency and disclosure on Capitol Hill, and that's not a good way to start. You can't plead national security. The public has a right to know.

Lynn Woolsey has every right to invite the people of her choosing to sit in the gallery. She certainly is not responsible for the Capitol Police removing Cindy Sheehan.

Jack Kingston

Nobody has any sympathy for oil companies on Capitol Hill right now. You talk to someone driving to work in an F-150 pickup and paying $75 to fill up his tank, and everybody's on his side.

Right here, in this community, 10 miles from Capitol Hill, in the streets of Northern Virginia, American citizens allegedly met and plotted and recruited for violent jihad.

I don't think his advisers understand how difficult it is going to be to get their way on Capitol Hill because of this,

William Bennett

He will throw it right back in their faces. He knows more about it than they do. He's spent more time dealing with the problem, and he's actually solved the problem rather than pontificating about it from Capitol Hill.

Glenn Miller

One of the funniest lines we hear when we visit with people in the Capitol and talk to the decision-makers is, 'Well, the Internet has pretty much made the library obsolete.

Cesar Pelli

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

Tom Daschle

I'm still wondering what it is about Mr. Ridge's job that would keep the administration from wanting him to come to the Capitol to talk about the many responsibilities he has,

Gary Ross

I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

Who knows with this White House. It's proven to be very, very effective on Capitol Hill.

I think it will be very difficult for the (Bush) administration to conclude a deal that the industry doesn't support. It would make too many people on Capitol Hill unhappy.

Tim Ryan

I caught the bug, ... I went down there and had a blast. Capitol Hill is a great place for a young person. I decided I wanted to go back after graduation.

Columbus is about to become the diarrhea capitol of the nation,

Lionel Barber

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

Hanoi Hannah

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

Dick Gephardt

We're losing a number of Capitol Police who are going to other law enforcement jurisdictions and operations, in part because of the time commitment here and, in part, because there are a lot of new opportunities, unfortunately, in the security field,

There is merit in discussing this proposal. This proposal does provide longer-term parking solutions for the Capitol area.

We need to increase the Endowment Fund for the Capitol so it doesn't go the way of the Weidner (Center for the Performing Arts).