Capitol Quotes:

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

- Gregory Corso

source: Source: realitystudio.org

topic: Punishment, Feels, Capitol

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

- Meredith Brooks

topic: Jagger, Capitol

I've never been unhappy with Capitol. Not really. They've been really good by me.

- Bob Seger

topic: Unhappy, Capitol

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Katniss, Long, Finding Yourself, Hunger For Food, Capitol

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Movie, Odds, President Snow, Hunger For Food, Hunger Games Book

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Safety, Hunger Games Book, District 12, Capitol, Capitol In Hunger Games

Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Girl, President Snow, Games, Forget Me, Hunger Games Book

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: People, Care, My Smile, Hunger Games Book, Capitol

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Games, Pieces, Hunger, Hunger Games Book, Capitol

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Boys, Bread, Dandelions, Hunger Games Book, Katniss And Peeta

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Couple, Hate, Fighting, Hunger Games Book, Capitol

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Games, Katniss, Heartbreaking, Hunger Games Book, Capitol

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

- Shane Filan

topic: Westlife, Capitol

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

topic: Arena, Hunger, Trouble, Capitol, Haymitch

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

- Barack Obama

topic: Congress, Members, Capitol

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

topic: Wall, Powerful, Campaigns, Campaign Contributions, Capitol

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

- Henry Kirke White

source: Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490

topic: Weed, Solitude, Savages, Capitol

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

topic: Hands, Laughing, Hills, Capitol, Capitol Hill

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

topic: Done, Given, Best Work, Capitol

[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

topic: Powerful, Men, Thinking, Plantations, Capitol

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

- Hermann Broch

topic: Rome, Ideas, Age, Capitol

I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.

- Marietta Holley

topic: Country, Order, Wind, Justice And Injustice, Capitol

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Stars, Fun, Dixie, Brooklyn Bridge

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

topic: Summer, Smell, Tourists, Capitol, Humidity

To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!

- David Wilkerson

topic: Christian, Jesus, Thinking, Capitol, Dying Love

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Next, May, Expected, Capitol

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

- Les Baxter

topic: Want, Way, Contracts, Capitol, Complete Freedom

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

topic: Ems, Littles, Problem, Capitol

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

- Rufus Choate

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

topic: Temples, Oracles, Common, Capitol

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

topic: Animal, Errors, Punishment, Capitol, Commuting

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

topic: Hero, Burning, Remember, Capitol, Dauntless

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

- J. Frank Dobie

topic: Texas, America, Example, Capitol, Fascism In America

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

topic: Wall, Voice, People, Redress, Capitol

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

- Melissa Auf der Maur

topic: Records, Capitol

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

topic: People, Connections, States, Capitol

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: Territory, Hills, Capitol Hill, Israeli, Capitol

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

topic: Children, Two, White, Capitol

No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid

- Michelle Alexander

topic: Country, Black, Population, Jim Crow, Capitol

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

topic: Heart, Years, Occupation, Capitol, Capitol Hill

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

- Montel Williams

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

topic: Hills, Capitol Hill, Capitol, Second Guessing

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

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

topic: Taken, Writing, Years, Year One, Capitol

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

- Wiley Miller

topic: Fall, America, Expectations, Capitol

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

topic: Country, Responsibility, Dark, Capitol

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

- Ralph Bellamy

topic: Nice, Littles, Towns, Little Towns, Albany

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

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

topic: Believe, Years, Two, Capitol, Two Years

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

topic: House, Empowering, Helping, Capitol, Capitol Hill

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

topic: Taken, Night, Years, Capitol, Capitol Hill

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

source: Memoirs of My Life ch. 6 (1796)

topic: Fall, Writing, Rome, Friars, Capitol

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.

source: "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

topic: Jobs, Wind, Political, Capitol, Clout

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

- William S. Burroughs

source: Source: realitystudio.org

topic: Suicide, Punishment, Method, Capitol

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

source: Source: realitystudio.org

topic: Book, Lunch, Punishment, Capitol

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

topic: Home, Writing, Trying, Capitol

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

source: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

topic: Medical Records, Capitol, Personal Information, Family Planning, Capitol Hill