“Even small-government conservatives believe Washington should prioritize defense, safety and security, and therefore see rescuing New Orleans as a top government priority.”
Brian Riedl
“providing safety, well i think providing security doesn't mean your keeping me safe”
Husam daoud
“I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.”
Barbara Boxer
“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
Mark Twain
“Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.”
Senator John Kerry
“cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.”
Ralph Nader
“The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.”
Richard M. Nixon
