Washington Quotes · Page 19

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

— Martin Sheen

In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The…

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

There's nothing greener than Washington state. They have the most beautiful vegetation on the planet. And the water is so clean.

— Fabio Lanzoni

Playing for the Washington Spirit, the 2013 season was one of the most difficult I have ever experienced.

— Ali Krieger

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

— Kevin Brady

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

— John Mason Brown

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

— Jorge Ramos

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is…

— Ted Cruz

A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with…

— Paula Broadwell

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not…

— Jeb Hensarling

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the…

— Pete Hegseth

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap…

— Michele Bachmann

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want…

— Elizabeth Warren

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent…

— Anonymous

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

— Jeb Hensarling

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

— David Harsanyi

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

— Katharine Graham

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start…

— Hillary Clinton

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

— David Harsanyi

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

— Stephen Kinzer

For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and…

— Susan Brooks

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

— Anonymous

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

— Gordon Parks

I just don't think we're going to change Washington until we put some people down there who look like average Marylanders.

— Kathy Szeliga

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

— Paul Ryan

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of…

— Jeb Bush

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make…

— Ari Fleischer

From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

— Edward P. Jones

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

— George W. Bush

Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined…

— Martha MacCallum

“Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.”

— Anonymous

Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.

— Jacque Fresco

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I…

— Nina Easton

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

— Andrew Shaffer

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

— Steve Southerland