Capitol Hill Quotes

• I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

  Montel Williams

  Hills, Second Guessing, Knows

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

  Sheryl Crow

  Artist, Together, Kind

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Bob Schieffer

  Independent, White, House

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• The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

  Mike Pence

  War, Reality, Hiking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

  Stone Gossard

  School, Firsts, Hills

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• On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

  Dennis Hastert

  House, Empowering, Helping

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• Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

  Michelle Malkin

  Hate, Pet, Size

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• A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

  Michael Moore

  People, Want, Hills

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• After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, Campaigns

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• Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

  Bob Beauprez

  Hawks, Hills, Democrat

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• The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.

  Juan Williams

  Father, Party, Garden

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• Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

  Mark Udall

  Cutting, Climbing, Numbers

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  I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10-mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe.

  Ron Paul

  Office, Liberty, Hills

  "The Draft: Just Say No" by Ron Paul, original.antiwar.com. February 17, 2009.

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• You`ve got James Comey on camera on Capitol Hill saying, - no, it is not much less of an offense than Hillary Clinton. In fact, it is far more serious. It was prosecuted.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Cameras, Saying No, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The focus of President Trump's administration will continue to be to have a safer America, to have a more prosperous America, and to continue to advance the president's agenda, both on Capitol Hill and through executive action and carry that message all across the country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, America, Focus

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think the relationships that we [with Donald Trump] developed on Capitol Hill are the reason why he's asked me to be a part of the team that's working to move our agenda forward in the House and in the Senate.

  Mike Pence

  Team, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities...

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Jobs, Wind, Political

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mean, Men, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, People, Political

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, "The Progressive" magazine, December 1, 2005.

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• The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

  Ron Chernow

  Art, Book, Character

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• The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.

  Harry Reid

  Past, President, Done

  "Reid, Bush Draw Lines on U.S. Iraq Policy". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. April 10, 2007.

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• I do think that part of the reason why [Donald Trump] asked me to run with him and gave me the opportunity to serve with him was informed by my 12 years of experience on Capitol Hill and my years as governor of the State of Indiana.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

  Dick Durbin

  Names, Doctors, Phones

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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