"Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I couldn’t analyze at first and didn't fully grasp (partly because I was far ..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough."
- Eden Butler
"Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison."
"I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhug..."
- Ray Palla
"At a national political convention, you have hundreds of people who consider themselves at least as important as the Secretary of Commerce. If it's a Democratic convention, you also have dozens of A-l..."
- Dave Barry
"Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power."
- Glenn Greenwald
"Excerpt from page 3 of "Wicked Washington"Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life:And close and dangerous calls were almost my last name. Yet I felt as comfortable among the stree..."
- Sonja D. Jones
"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
- P.J. O'Rourke
"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations"
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers—Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left—on the monument to “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty” ..."
- Patrick Mendis