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Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory. -- Pat Buchanan
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations. -- Wiley Miller
Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk. -- Bob Beauprez
Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know. -- Ralph Bellamy
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. -- Bill Dedman
Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships. -- Erik Paulsen
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth. -- Barry Bostwick
The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight. -- Gabrielle Giffords
A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me. -- Michael Moore
I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me. -- Bob Seger
I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill. -- Montel Williams
I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food. -- Suzanne Collins
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. -- Howard Baker
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol. -- William Shakespeare
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. -- Rufus Choate
According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill. -- Ron Fournier
... a city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ... -- Leslie Ford
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. -- Garth Brooks
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol. -- Luis Gutierrez
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. -- Grace Abbott
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. -- Michelle Malkin
I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's. -- Meredith Brooks
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. -- Pamela Anderson
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. -- Les Baxter
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans. -- Suzanne Collins
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome. -- Paula Poundstone
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort. -- Gore Vidal
The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards. -- Christopher Monckton
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit. -- Les Baxter
I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol. -- Barack Obama
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. -- Suzanne Collins
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
I always read the Capitol as fâ??ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! Itâ??s all happening. -- Lenny Kravitz
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
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. -- Cesar Pelli
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
The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul. -- Cass Gilbert
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me........ -- Suzanne Collins
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage. -- Suzanne Collins
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. -- Abraham Whipple
Only I keep wishing I could think of a way...to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games. -- Suzanne Collins
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon. -- Mike Pence
When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me. -- George Packer
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. -- Lionel Barber
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
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free. -- Gary Ackerman
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
Actually, Katniss isn't complaining because she has no intention of staying with the "Star Squad," but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan. -- Suzanne Collins
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
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? -- Chuck Todd
On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing. -- Jay Leno
Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way. -- Greg Lake
Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch "? this is the Capitol's way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. -- Suzanne Collins
I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails. -- Tony Snow
We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day. -- Jonathan Rauch
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
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
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
Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem -- Suzanne Collins
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. -- Lactantius
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
I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies. -- Simon Sinek
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion. -- Suzanne Collins
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 coal-burning utilities. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine. -- Suzanne Collins
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
If I can make it clear that I'm still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels? -- Suzanne Collins
I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment. -- Suzanne Collins
You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.' -- Luis Palau
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
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
The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next! -- Peter Garrett
Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets. -- Adam Schiff
And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place. -- Dick Durbin
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
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
This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups. -- John Dingell
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
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right. -- David Nevins
Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget. -- Mike Pence
I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love. -- Merry Clayton
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.' -- Gary Ross
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out. -- Fred Reed
The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish. -- Matt Taibbi
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
On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education. -- Dan Rather
My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one Iâ??ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitolâ??â??â??to do what I believe is best for America. -- Barack Obama
[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men. -- Andrea Mitchell
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. -- Kevin McCarthy
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
My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true. -- Harry Reid
Katniss...how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen..." He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insaneDead by morning!" -- Suzanne Collins
See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country. -- Jerry Garcia
We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol. -- James F. Amos
He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here. -- Suzanne Collins
Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country. -- Suzanne Collins
I went to the Capitol and came to court specifically to draw attention to the problems of the world that directly affect my state of mind and my physical body and to offer a way to clean up the world. This is my intent. -- Lynette Fromme
If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games?" And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol. -- Suzanne Collins
Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions. -- Kevin Yoder
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
I send a silent thank-you to Dalton for suggesting I wash off the makeup. How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me, why I belong to them. -- Suzanne Collins
But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence. -- Francis Bacon
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
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. -- Charles Schumer
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. -- Charles Schumer
If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever -- James Patterson
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white. -- Ovid
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
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! -- Thomas Otway
Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too. -- Mike Quigley
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. -- Suzanne Collins
It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. -- Suzanne Collins
The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments. They say the food is excellent -- Suzanne Collins
People think that politics just somehow magically organizes itself. It doesn't work that way. You need to assemble these huge coalitions of 535 politicians on Capitol Hill, and tens of thousands of interest groups, and tens of millions of voters, and assemble all those in government to get stuff done. -- Jonathan Rauch
To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace. -- Warren R. Austin
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip. -- Mona Simpson
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
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting. -- Josh Hutcherson

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