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“The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.”

— Michael Wolff

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

— Booker T. Washington

“Given time, Washington DC. has a way of making a Politician out of an Honest Man.”

— Ron Rinna

“He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.”

— Richard Darman

“First, it is crucial to recognize that Washington’s extraordinary reputation rested less on his prudent exercise of power than on his dramatic flair at…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“: “[George] Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.”

— William E. Woodward

“He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about…

— Kami Garcia

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“People who were personally concerned about a better world, came to Washington, were drawn to it. Even though where we were going was still…

— Studs Terkel

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie