Washington Quotes · Page 6

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

— Kristi Noem

Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.

— Jason Kander

I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

— Claire McCaskill

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

— Gary Johnson

When you get out of Washington, you realize how much of a Beltway bubble exists.

— Elise Stefanik

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

— Jack Kingston

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's…

— Erik Paulsen

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

— Katie Lowes

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

— Mick Mulvaney

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

— Meghan McCain

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with…

— Aaron Swartz

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

— Thomas Sowell

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and…

— Jim DeMint

“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done…

— Henry Adams

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an…

— Anonymous

I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I…

— Mark Leibovich

One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you…

— Frank Luntz

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which…

— Booker T. Washington

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many…

— Ed Smith

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

— Barack Obama

There are two Americas: Washington and the rest of us.

— Eric Garcetti

I'm not going to buy a magazine to read about Denzel Washington's personal life.

— Michael Clarke

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

— Carly Fiorina

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

— Alexander Graham Bell

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

— Simon Hoggart

The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.

— Tom Douglas

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

— Henry Ford

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

— Stephen Kinzer

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

— Linda Sarsour

I'm fortunate I landed on my feet in Washington.

— Ron Rivera

Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.

— Howard Bloom

I want to help Donald Trump drain the swamp back in Washington.

— Greg Gianforte

Hoosiers sent me to Washington to offer solutions.

— Mike Braun

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

— Dennis Miller