Washington Quotes
1320 Washington quotes by 849 unique authors
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If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a…
— Malik Zulu Shabazz
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Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I…
— William J. Clinton
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One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped…
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the…
— David Malpass
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While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a…
— David Malpass
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Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that…
— David Malpass
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I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard…
— Ricky Martin
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I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.
— Rick Perry
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To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington.
— Evgeny Morozov
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To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.
— Woody Harrelson
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The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry…
— Leon Krier
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Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln…
— Leon Krier
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The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about…
— Ivan Krastev
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I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege…
— Helen Thomas
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Had a dog. I had many. I grew up in rural Washington before I moved to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, and my first dog…
— Justin Kirk
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
— Penn Jillette
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Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut…
— Charlie Pierce
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To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are…
— Mark Leibovich
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The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.
— Mark Leibovich
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I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of cohabitates…
— Mark Leibovich
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Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
— Mark Leibovich
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