Washington Quotes · Page 16

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

— Russell Pearce

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

— John Lindsay

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

— Steven Horsford

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

— Rand Paul

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

— Bennie Thompson

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any…

— Kevin Gutzman

Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms…

— Tim Scott

“When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.”

— Len Deighton

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built…

— George W. S. Trow

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people…

— Andrea Mitchell

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a…

— Seymour Hersh

Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even…

— Elizabeth Warren

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow…

— Ivan Krastev

I've been to Washington many times over the years for stories, and it always seems remarkably the same. More the same than…

— Dave Barry

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their…

— Brian Dennehy

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending…

— Jim Jordan

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

— Martha Roby

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

— Zoe Buckman

Washington told Wall Street, 'We're going to let y'all regulate yourselves.' The Republicans were in charge. They never said a word.

— Ronnie Musgrove

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

— Rick Rowley

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance…

— Andrew P. Harris

What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary?

— Michael Capuano

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations…

— Steve Daines

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

— Paul Cellucci

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

Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of…

— Elizabeth Warren

It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and…

— Eric Garcetti

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

— Cenk Uygur

Jon Tester continues to tell Montanans one thing and then votes the other way when he's back in Washington D.C.

— Matt Rosendale

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system.…

— Francine Busby

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

— Mike Quigley

There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is…

— Sarah Steelman

Let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

— Cenk Uygur

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

— Mike Pence

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

— Jeb Bush

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

— Mark Leibovich

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

— Robert Reich