22 Quotes by Marshall Wittmann

Thanks to Gingrich, 1994 was that rare moment when the opposition party actually had developed alternative ideas about how to govern.

This is radioactive. This is the issue that dare not speak its name.

There were about a dozen of us wanting to stop this or that Clinton plan. When the Mariana Islands came up, I wondered how did this become a conservative issue?

This is the Lord's gift to the Democratic Party. It is not every day that the Democratic Party gets to the right of the Republicans on national security.

It's a unique Washington story. Usually you rise, you fall and then you become a lucrative lobbyist. Here's a case where he rose, he fell and he stuck it out in the institution.

It's the opposite of what Frank Sinatra sang. If you can make it there, you can't necessarily make it anywhere in the Republican Party.

It's almost like Bush is running for reelection with peace and prosperity.

Congress has become a playground sandbox with no adult supervision.

They looked into the abyss and saw this whole thing falling apart and realized they needed to get something done over a serious issue. It was a rare moment of government at its best, and it's not clear how long it will last.