“We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.”
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist
As quoted in "Kevorkian Plans Congressional Run" (13 March 2008), Fox News
2000s, 2008
“Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.”
"Honestly" (p.69)
So This Is Depravity (1980)
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“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-036-014.aspx to the Trustees and Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in the White House Movie Theater, 14 November 1961 <br class="br">1961
“Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.”
David Brinkley (1920–2003) American journalist
as cited in Great Political Wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House (2000), Bob Dole, Random House, p. 89 : ISBN 0767906675, 9780767906678
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.
Quoted in Svetonius, Lives of the Cesars, Aug., XXVIII, 3
Nancy Pelosi (1940) American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940
Source: Post-election comments, 2006-11-7. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110700473.html
“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Ode written during the War with America (1814).
“While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
St. 5.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
Context: While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,
Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven,
Or drawing from the no less kindled earth
Freedom and peace to that which boasts his birth;
While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.
Giuseppe Ungaretti book San Martino del Carso
San Martino del Carso (27 August 1916). [A Major Selection of the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1997, ISBN 9781550960341]
Original: (it) Di queste case
non è rimasto
che qualche
brandello di muro
Di tanti
che mi corrispondevano
non è rimasto
neppure tanto
Ma nel cuore
nessuna croce manca
È il mio cuore
il paese più straziato.