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I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew…

— Michelle Obama

I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington.

— Wayne Messam

I'm not truly convinced solutions are coming out of Washington.

— Wayne Messam

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

— Thomas Sowell

My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are…

— Jerry Springer

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

— John F. Kennedy

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good…

— Barack Obama

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

— Betsy DeVos

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

— Mark Meadows

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas…

— Judd Gregg

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

— Barack Obama

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated…

— E. L. Doctorow