People, wake up Figure it out Religious fanatics Around and about The Court House, The State House, The Congress, The White House Criminal saints With a "Heavenly Mission" - A nation enraptured By pure superstition
Frank Zappa
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting... GARY F EVANS... It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Repu... CAL JILLSON She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. HELEN THOMAS She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she... BRAM STOKER It would have been confined to the vice-president. By not telling anyone for 24 hours, it made it a ... MARLIN FITZWATER Pain was unimportant. Failure was unthinkable. RICK RIORDAN Abomination is the word if you've built a religious house worth $10,& yet you cannot feed the needy ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We had to wake them up to get them out of the house. DELORES GONZALEZ And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both ... BIBLE We are left with a picture of a White House that was plagued by the fog of war. The committee is lik... DAVID MARIN Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream. GROVER CLEVELAND Instead of addressing the real concerns ... the Republican majority in Congress buckled to White Hou... LISA GRAVES Judge Preska says the issue is in the domain of Congress and the [White House] administration, and w... BILL HOLBROOK We went around house to house and asked the people if they liked the idea. ZACH LINK I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think i... ALICE WATERS People who are afraid of commitment are people who know what the real thing is. HOUSE Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and th... GEORGE W. BUSH To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable. LETITIA BALDRIGE You've got a Republican White House; you've got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be sm... CHRIS BLACK You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. JAMES BAKER The White House asserted unfounded privileges that were later rejected in court, ... White House off... ROBERT RAY [A White House spokesman, Trent Duffy, took issue with the suggestion that the administration had be... TRENT DUFFY The proposal is to have a presentation of the evidence by the House managers, have a presentation by... BYRON DORGAN Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK It's the culture that we live in. Our parents were the kind of people who bought a house to raise a ... LARRY THURMOND This is called the White House Conference on Aging, not the White House Conference on Social Securit... DORCAS HARDY I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev... AL GORE My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather w... RAJNEESH We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL You can't shoot someone under Maine law just because that person won't get out of your house, ... It... ANDREW BENSON The White House is a strange place. MARLIN FITZWATER We have always viewed the White House and the House as going along with some airline relief as part ... GREG KELLY It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o... A.A. MILNE Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth wit... BIBLE Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?" 'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love al... RICK RIORDAN There have always been questions about whether Congress can police itself. The situation in the Hous... KATHLEEN CLARK Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of g... J. C. WATTS I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu... MICHELLE OBAMA [Brown testified that he pressed the White House to urge] dysfunctional ... I did not have a problem... MICHAEL CHERTOFF A lot of people are concerned about security. It just makes their house stand out more. It makes the... DEREK BLACK If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Pl... MICHELLE MALKIN It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was su... ROBERT REED consultation with various members of the delegation and the White House. ROBERT STRAUSS [He also pointed out the Supreme Court's statement that the appellate court would proceed expeditiou... CHARLES BAKALY at the White House after hours, talking about a range of things and having prayer. JESSE JACKSON It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect p... CHRISTINE O'DONNELL Whether or not a house stands with her or not through it says more about the house than it does abou... SHARON STONE What the conservative base in this country is concerned about is they worked very, very hard to get ... BILL LAUDERBACK People always have thought that the White House was the center of Washington, but it was Kay's house... SALLY QUINN The White House, to a degree, blunted all that by having the president come forward. SCOTT SOBEL I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass... KRISTIAN NAIRN The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda. JOHN FLEMING Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House, ... They want to d... ALAN PRICE The White House wants (immigration reform), and many of us in the House do so as well, JEFF FLAKE Neither Dr. Rice nor the White House has objected to allowing the committee access to CIA documents ... SEAN MCCORMACK When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to d... BEN FALCONE White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly ... BILL DRAYTON the White House pit bull. ANDREA MITCHELL I want to make it clear I'm not a chauvinist, but I believe a woman's place is in the house, ... The... MICHAEL MCKINNEY Them providing this type of information from the White House is almost a risk they assume when you n... SAM BROWNBACK For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody kne... DEMETRI MARTIN TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the le... SHEL SILVERSTEIN The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security... BARBARA BOXER In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground b... BEN VAN BERKEL I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents. CAMPBELL BROWN I crank up the music, and I dance around the house. CHRISTIE BRINKLEY But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And ... MARIO PUZO Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to d... ALAN PRICE A white boy that makes C's in College can make it to the White House CHRIS ROCK I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. BOB HOPE You've done a nice job decorating the White House. JESSICA SIMPSON We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so w... CHARLIE MCDOWELL You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A presi... JAMES BAKER We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. H.L. MENCKEN She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's ... NANCY FARMER Bob says hello," he told the stars. RICK RIORDAN You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. JAMES BAKER [The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th... KIRK WHALUM Someone told me about the house with a shop behind it. We came up and thought it was ideal. BOB MATTISON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent.... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I don't see how the Israeli people are served by another house here, another house there, when the b... DAVID MAKOVSKY Socrates was killed… by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything… ‘Wh... EDDIE IZZARD With the agreement of the Department of Justice, the White House has retained separate counsel to re... JANET RENO Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gal... JERRY FALWELL When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to... PAUL BEGALA I didn't have a father figure in the house. THE WEEKND I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted... JAY ALAN SEKULOW Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the crit... VINCENT VAN GOGH I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience. MITCH MCCONNELL She has to get out from under the cocoon of the White House and the president. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into arou... ICE CUBE My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like... BILL HADER [Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are puttin... BARRY LYNN It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chain... MADELEINE M. KUNIN Colorado is the only state with a majority Republican voter registration in which the Republicans ho... DICK LEGGITT
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