Aircraft Quote by Dean Acheson

Washington's a dangerous place.

— Jack Abramoff

“In many ways, after many decades, many billions of dollars, and countless advances in technology, the federal government’s basic plan to escape a catastrophe…

— Garrett M. Graff

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

— Eric Schmidt

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

— Scott Pruitt

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

— David Harsanyi

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But…

— George Pelecanos

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

— William Greider

“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been…

— Mark Leibovich

I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in…

— Barack Obama

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

— Barack Obama

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

— Elise Stefanik