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You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington. – Jim Acosta	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I remember that day... my wife's eyes welled up, and I felt like I had been hit in the stomach. We said we were going to do whatever we can to make this right, nobody's gravestone should be used as RIPRAP on the Potomac. – Richard Stuart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Nobody's gravestone should be used as RIPRAP on the Potomac. – Richard Stuart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations. – Charley Reese	added by Normando 4 years ago
Hillary Clinton loss's an urgency I can't resist, if Hillary Clinton had won... our Affordable Care Act would be protected and I could go home, you know, no one in California ever gets Potomac fever. We all always want to go home. But that didn't happen, sadly for our country. So, this is something that I feel all of my experience is geared to. – Leader Pelosi at 11:45	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s the Potomac Fever -- if you get close to being president, you can’t get the smell off, and you’re always going to want to do it again. – Brad Bannon	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Indeed, the screaming you hear now from across the Potomac is the Washington cartel in full terror that the conservative grassroots are rising up. – Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He got a touch of that Potomac fever there in D.C. Maybe he's been -- I don't know -- maybe he's been hanging out in a cornfield too long huffing ethanol or something. – Sarah Palin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's hard to believe, but only 50 years after his death, in the early 1850s, the home was in complete disrepair, a woman was taking a steamer (on the Potomac). It was the custom of the captain to ring the bell when he got in front of Mount Vernon. She looked up. She saw the shape of the house. – Curt Viebranz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.

– Jim Acosta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I remember that day... my wife's eyes welled up, and I felt like I had been hit in the stomach. We said we were going to do whatever we can to make this right, nobody's gravestone should be used as RIPRAP on the Potomac.

– Richard Stuart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nobody's gravestone should be used as RIPRAP on the Potomac.

– Richard Stuart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

– Charley Reese

added by Normando
4 years ago

Hillary Clinton loss's an urgency I can't resist, if Hillary Clinton had won... our Affordable Care Act would be protected and I could go home, you know, no one in California ever gets Potomac fever. We all always want to go home. But that didn't happen, sadly for our country. So, this is something that I feel all of my experience is geared to.

– Leader Pelosi at 11:45

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s the Potomac Fever -- if you get close to being president, you can’t get the smell off, and you’re always going to want to do it again.

– Brad Bannon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Indeed, the screaming you hear now from across the Potomac is the Washington cartel in full terror that the conservative grassroots are rising up.

– Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He got a touch of that Potomac fever there in D.C. Maybe he's been -- I don't know -- maybe he's been hanging out in a cornfield too long huffing ethanol or something.

– Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's hard to believe, but only 50 years after his death, in the early 1850s, the home was in complete disrepair, a woman was taking a steamer (on the Potomac). It was the custom of the captain to ring the bell when he got in front of Mount Vernon. She looked up. She saw the shape of the house.

– Curt Viebranz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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