Washington Quotes
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
Vincent Canby
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
Ted Cruz
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
Walt Mossberg
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
Major Owens
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Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.
Cenk Uygur
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Larry Elder
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Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.
Ted Cruz
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
Dan Pfeiffer
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Pat Oliphant
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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
Edmund Morgan
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
Ted Cruz
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
Rand Paul
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I'm not a creature of Washington.
Jack Kingston
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A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.
Oliver Evans
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
Edmund Morgan
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I think that the reality is, is that there's a shift in the mood in the USA that's very anti-Washington.
Reince Priebus
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Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
Ted Cruz
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I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
J. C. Watts
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
Sally Quinn
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama
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I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
U Thant