Capitol Quotes - Page 2

• We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

  Rufus Choate

  Oracles, Temples, Common

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Texas, America, Example

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• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  Caleb Cushing

  Wall, Voice, People

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• I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Records

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• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

  Molly Ivins

  People, Connections, States

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• Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Territory, Hills, Capitol Hill

  "Is Perry Anderson lost in the lobby?" by Alan Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  Mercer Reynolds

  Children, White, Two

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• The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, United States

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

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• I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

  Gary Reilly

  Heart, Years, Occupation

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

  Montel Williams

  Hills, Capitol Hill, Second Guessing

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

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.

  Wiley Miller

  Fall, America, Expectations

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• I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that are heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Responsibility, Dark

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• Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Nice, Littles, Towns

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• My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Years, Two

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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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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• Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the seats. The joint session of Congress listening to President Obama Tuesday night included 83 fewer Democrats than the group that heard Obama's first address in 2009 - 69 fewer Democrats in the House and 14 fewer in the Senate. The scene in the House Chamber was a graphic reminder of the terrible toll the Obama years have taken on Capitol Hill Democrats.

  Byron York

  Taken, Night, Years

  "Obama's disconnected, out of touch, in denial State of the Union" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. January 21, 2015.

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• It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fall, Writing, Rome

  Memoirs of My Life ch. 6 (1796)

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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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• Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

  William S. Burroughs

  Suicide, Punishment, Method

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Lunch, Punishment

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Trying

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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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