Washington Quotes · Page 12

There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind.

— Mitt Romney

The cost of healthcare, caring for our veterans, and draining the swamp are among a few of the issues I have been…

— Mike Braun

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was…

— Carl Hart

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.

— Matt Salmon

There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.

— Don Cornelius

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and…

— James Green Somerville

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is…

— Francine Busby

Since arriving in Washington in January 2015, I have pushed for a strategic framework that clearly articulates how we'll tackle threats in cyberspace.

— Ben Sasse

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy,…

— Mike Bouchard

Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington, D.C. State leaders in power keep forcing people to opposite…

— Wendy Davis

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People…

— Dave Ramsey

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our…

— Chuck Hagel

... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party…

— Naomi Wolf

Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like…

— Octavia Spencer

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for…

— Stephen Gaghan

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

— Dar Williams

As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.

— Paul Broun

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out…

— Sharron Angle

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

— Vance McAllister

When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government…

— Mark Leibovich

As a voice for Georgia in the U.S. Senate, I'm committed to making sure Washington is keeping its promise to our veterans.

— Raphael Warnock

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

— Joseph Stiglitz

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

— Michael Bloomberg

I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.

— Cenk Uygur

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through…

— Wendy Davis

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

— Anne McClain

“- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about? - The one in Washington, D.C.”

— Tara Janzen

What I intend to do is be just a really fierce advocate for Minnesotans here in Washington, D.C.

— Tina Smith

People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman…

— Fiona Hill

I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been…

— Anonymous

It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.

— Lois Frankel

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

— Dennis Moore

I love my brother, and I respect his service, i haven't been in Washington ... ever. I'm not part of Washington.

— George W. Bush

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

— Elizabeth Warren

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

— Kara Swisher

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

“He began representing the state in Washington two years before its most famous citizen was even born.”

— Anonymous

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

— Claire McCaskill