Capitol Quotations | Page 2

At approximately 6:30 pm (2330 GMT) this evening we received an alarm at the Capitol Police for a nerve agent in the attic of the Russell building.

As much as Wall Street and Madison Avenue and Capitol Hill try to pigeonhole women into categories, women are erasing those artificial boundaries.

It's a strange thing for Bush to have slipped into, given the savvy you expected from this administration, with a vice president who spent over a decade on Capitol Hill. It seems as if his people would have seen that there was potential for trouble, and at least done their homework on the Hill.

It's a bit of a headache, but we know it's got to happen. Capitol fires certainly aren't unheard of in North Dakota.

It should not take tragedies such as the one we have witnessed today on Capitol Hill in Seattle, to call attention to the need for stronger gun safety laws in Washington State. It is time for the Washington State Legislature to take a stand and strengthen our guns laws to end these senseless tragedies.

Congressman Tom DeLay has been an exceptional leader on Capitol Hill and Vice President Cheney looks forward to helping his re-election effort.

The administration wanted all the work done when the Old Capitol opened.

It's amazing to say, and this is not an exaggeration, that Bob Rubin has more influence today on Capitol Hill than the current Treasury Secretary.

It's hard for anything that will come out of Capitol Hill to make speech any freer in China.

It was loud inside the Capitol with all of the people who were there. The legislators seemed interested in our robots.

I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special session, they're going to be down on the Capitol steps telling us to get out of there!

It took time for him to be accepted because essentially, he'd never worked for CIA. He was looked on as a kind of Capitol Hill bureaucrat.

The US industry's position is let's work hard and get a defensible plan that we can both stand behind...and feel comfortable with. As soon as the US government signals to the industry that they have a separation plan within grasp, you will see the US industry step forward in support of the civilian nuclear initiative on Capitol Hill. You will see US industry pushing Capitol Hill... in moving that legislation.

The US industry is supportive. The business community wants the administration to take the lead, and we are waiting for word that the separation plan is in hand and credible, and then industry's voice will be heard on Capitol Hill.

The negotiations for the agreement would take a substantial amount of time. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns has been telling people on the Capitol Hill (where US Congress and Senate are) that it will be a year or so.

That's exactly how he got to Capitol Hill. He listened and he watched, he studied, he absorbed. Bill Fulbright became Bill Clinton's giant.

That's a sharp contrast to Gore's 'People v. Powerful Business,' delivered last week on Capitol Hill, ... is in the hands of an elite, which embodies wealth and power and represents them at the expense of citizens.

The Fed has more or less backed away from this pre-emptive approach that they talked so much about in recent months. In fact, the Senate could say that Alan Greenspan & Co. caved in to the political criticism on Capitol Hill that we saw emanate over the last few weeks,

I learned from my days at the Ohio Legislature that it's much easier to be close to where you work, especially if you are expected at the Capitol for a 3 a.m. vote,

I'm running because I believe we need to bring sunshine on these subjects into Capitol Hill and Congress.

If we tied against a Capitol Police team that was stronger, younger, and more talented, that counts as a victory,

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.

I help her by not getting in her way. She has done lot of things she hadn't done before, taken a lot of trips. She had spoken on the steps of the Capitol and before one of the House committees in Washington.

I tend not to buy into the conventional wisdom that this has so soured relations between the White House and Capitol Hill that we're not going to see things get done.

I caught the bug, ... I went down there and had a blast. Capitol Hill is a great place for a young person. I decided I wanted to go back after graduation.

I can't believe one month later there's lead paint, ... I think it's part of a scheme. I realize we're in the Capitol Hill area. They're trying to build condos.

Columbus is about to become the diarrhea capitol of the nation,

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

This is on the Senate side of the Capitol (building). At this time we have received negative results on this testing.

This has never happened before in our history, that our whole spectrum of Black thought was represented here on this stage, in front of the Capitol of the United States of America.

This has everything to do with that investigation into the Roseville-based Capitol Com-passionate Care.

The goal of this panel on public investment and R&D is to explain our innovation model and how it has benefited research scientists who want to commercialize their technologies. Attendees will understand that San Jose, the capitol of Silicon Valley, has the networks of investors, advisors and entrepreneurs that can provide access to equity and technology transfer.

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.

The driver of the vehicle, after making an inquiry regarding parking on Capitol Hill, indicated that he had an explosive device in his vehicle.

The first time it happened was up at the Capitol building. I was freaked out about it. I wanted to get out of there. You go there hoping something will happen, but when it actually happens, you don't want to be there.

The Capitol serves as a beacon of American liberty, freedom and democracy, and Rosa Parks served as the mother of the America we grew to be,

I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on