Washington Quotes · Page 6

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

— Thom Tillis

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

— Chuck Todd

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

— Dylan Moran

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

— John J. McCloy

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

— Bobby Knight

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

— Rand Paul

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

I never thought life would take me on a journey from the Bronx to Washington, D.C.

— Ritchie Torres

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

— Mark Shields

'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring.

— Will Hobbs

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

— Jason Kander

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

— Mona Sutphen

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to…

— Mike Bouchard

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border…

— Noam Chomsky

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26…

— Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.

— Ted Cruz

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be…

— Howard Coble

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will…

— E. L. Doctorow

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would…

— Daniel Webster

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest…

— David Malpass

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to…

— Warren Rudman

The travel that I've spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in…

— Eric Garcetti

Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and…

— Justin Kirk

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system…

— Esther Dyson

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

— Mark Leibovich

“She added, "Washington is the city of the soft heads and the chicken hearts.”

— Donald Hamilton

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

— Kevin Spacey

Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

Nothing against UCLA, they're so awesome, but I felt more at home at Washington.

— Trinity Rodman

Well, I moved to Washington, D.C. when I was just fresh out of college.

— Katie Pavlich

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

— David Brooks

It's our duty as leaders in Washington to keep the government running.

— Austin Scott

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

— Tori Amos

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

— Phil Gramm

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

— Ted Cruz

In Washington, D.C., they don't do real work.

— Mark Meadows

I came to Washington to get things done in a bipartisan way.

— Young Kim

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

— John Engler

Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.

— Marion Barry