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“I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.”
Sam Rayburn quotes (American Politician and Lawyer. He was responsible for passage of New Deal legislation, 1882-1961)

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“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
Simone Weil quotes (French social Philosopher, Mystic and Activist in the French Resistance during World War II. 1909-1943)
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“Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.”
surfun Dennis Prager quotes (Radio talk show host, author, lecturer)
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“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy”
Goldie Hawn quotes (American Actress. b.1945,Washington, District of Columbia, USA)
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“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in”
Marcelene Cox quotes
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“[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers.”
William Howard Taft quotes (American 27th US President (1909-13). 1857-1930)

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“SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”
santiz Saint Ignatius of Loyola quotes (Spanish Writer and Journalist, 1491-1556)

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“They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.”
Hugh Sidey quotes

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