Washington Quotes · Page 12

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the…

— Stephen Kinzer

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first…

— Harry S Truman

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

— John F. Kennedy

As your representative, you can count on me to fight back against Washington, D.C.'s war on the west.

— Greg Gianforte

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so…

— Mike Pompeo

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are…

— Mo Brooks

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start…

— Heidi Heitkamp

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

— Beau Willimon

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted…

— Big Sean

An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine…

— Donald Faison

It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes,…

— Walter Kirn

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate…

— Ben Shapiro

I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones.…

— Joaquin Castro

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C.…

— Leon Krier

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

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

— Gloria Steinem

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

— Jonathan Turley

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win…

— Rick Perlstein

The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the…

— John T. Chambers

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

— Steven Hatfill

I enjoyed New York. We had a good time, a good season. We had a good time. Washington was hell.

— Jason Taylor

“About all I can say about the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”

— Will Rogers

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

— Nancy Pelosi

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests.

— Sergei Lavrov

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by…

— Rick Perry

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

— Bill Gates

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

— Jim Jordan

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

— Eric Garcetti

Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.

— Tom Douglas

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

Look, I went to college in Washington, D.C. - best I remember is it's pretty easy to walk outside.

— Clay Travis

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