Politics Quote by Erik Larson

“In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and…

— David McCullough

“So we passed, hand-cuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington through the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government, we are…

— Solomon Northup

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

“There were plots afoot—plans of deceit, treason, and betrayal—and the only hope the Americans had to survive them was to be prepared. Washington knew…

— Brian Kilmeade

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all…

— Carolyn See

George Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every…

— William Howard Taft

“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

“Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.”

— Tim Weiner

“Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“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

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers