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"...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982).

Ronald Reagan

They have a limited ability to move over land in wet weather, but the ability of red swamp crayfish to get from Lake Mead to Beatty is probably pretty limited. We assume people are moving them.

Jon Sjoberg

Heard from behind bars is sending ripples across the stagnated swamp of Russian politics.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

You stop to get apples and people swamp all over it.

Wayne Carlton

In pre-settlement times it had more wetlands than any part of the state. It was just a huge swamp at one time.

Dave Graber

They are normally in the Southeast, a wooded swamp bird, but there are some in southern Minnesota.

Corey Ellingson

If I had to leave Vermont in February, there's no place I'd rather be than mucking around a swamp in Arkansas searching for these birds.

Bryan Pfeiffer

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.

Ambrose Bierce

That side will be easier to build. We're not in the swamp over there.

Mark Cook

Nobody has ever done that, since it's been The Swamp.

Pat Dooley

Rep. DeLay doesn't want the people of Houston to know what he's up to with corrupt lobbyists in Washington. There should be no place in Congress for the corrupt pay-to-play politics of Tom DeLay and Bob Ney. No more lip service. Congress must address real reforms that drain the money swamp of Washington.

David Donnelly

They transcend the swamp of New York politics. Because of their celebrity, Clinton and Giuliani are able to rise above the mire that soils so many other New York politicians.

Nelson Warfield

Do we sound like monsters who crawled out of a swamp to eat little kids? It's beyond belief in my brain. Everybody's just painted us - I don't have words for it.

Tommy Allain

It's just burning in the swamp. It's burning fuel that's within the fire lines at this time.

Ben Wolcott

It was like a swamp. It [grass] was pulled up everywhere. It was like stepping in potholes.

Sam Smith

This place is pretty close to a swamp, especially when the mosquitoes and flies get going. I came to town to try to help get things back to normal and make a few bucks. But this has been hard.

Arthur Tucker

Cheney came to the region seeking an exit for the US from the swamp it willingly got itself into and of which Cheney was an architect.

Hassan Nafaa

Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment that has allowed this radicalism to exist. The key to success is changing the environment to make radical Islam completely unacceptable. . . . It's not just draining the swamp. You have to poison the sea.

Peter Singer

They found two Louisiana Swamp Tour Vans that were charging $40 apiece.

Fred Powell

The survivors were seated in the back. They managed to get out and wade through the swamp to the nearest road.

Johnny Luna