Carl Kasell Quotes

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

I haven't let Washington change me.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

As a Navy SEAL, our motto is obviously 'Never Quit,' and our only easy day was yesterday. Send in the Navy SEALS - I think it's time to send the Navy SEALS to Washington!

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

Washington can be a frustrating place.

I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned to Washington from an overseas posting and I reported for duty on the morning of 9/11. I knew in my gut when I saw the video of the first plane hitting the tower in Manhattan that it was bin Laden.

In the business world, those who are slow to act and adapt find themselves out of business in a hurry. In Washington, it can take 10 years to get even a good idea across the finish line.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

Wake up! Time to die!

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.