Washington Quotes
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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
Eric Holder -
I give thousands of interviews, and I'm probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I'll continue to do that.
Rand Paul
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
U Thant -
What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
Mark Batterson -
Im not revolted by Washington.
Kevin Spacey -
We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.
Ted Cruz -
If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.
Ted Yoho
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We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.
Kristi Noem -
We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,
Sam Reed -
She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.
Olympia Snowe -
Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington.
Ted Cruz -
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
Lajos Kossuth -
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.
Joe Lieberman
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It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
Dennis Hastert -
The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning.
Joe Lieberman -
Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
Meghan McCain -
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions.
Alexander Graham Bell -
I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
Cory Booker -
I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.
Linda McMahon
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If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed...
Irvin S. Cobb -
Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S Truman -
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.
Joe Davis