Washington Quotes · Page 19

What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?

— Wayne Messam

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

— Dan Pfeiffer

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing…

— John George Nicolay

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

— Jeb Bush

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

— Stephen Kinzer

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

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

— Anonymous

And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed.…

— Senator John Kerry

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of…

— Kevin McCarthy

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in…

— Sarah Butler

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion…

— John Podhoretz

Washington, D.C., is not a subtle city. Unlike the capitals of other once-great powers which, many hundreds of years old, present a…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at times, I would…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch…

— Des Browne

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak…

— Richard Engel

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

— Susan Brooks

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

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

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

— Ari Fleischer

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Edward P. Jones

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

— Jorge Ramos

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

— Jeb Hensarling

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

— Kevin Brady

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

— Ali Krieger

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

— John Mason Brown

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

— Katharine Graham

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

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

— Hillary Clinton

“But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No…

— Pirate Lanford

In Washington, I will focus on creating a climate that helps create jobs and opportunities for Americans.

— Thom Tillis

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

— Mel Martinez

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up…

— John McCain

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

— Steve Forbes

I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.

— Kelli Ward

As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who…

— Joycelyn Elders

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue…

— Mike Pompeo