Washington Quotes

Washington is dominated by big money.

I'm not much into speculation.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown... The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.