City Quote by Neil Bush

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright…

— Katharine Graham

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there…

— William J. Clinton

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

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors…

— Al Sharpton

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came…

— Al Franken

My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the…

— Grace Paley

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that…

— Rahm Emanuel

I went to Washington, D.C, for the first time my senior year as part of Girls Nation, put on by the American Legion Auxiliary,…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel…

— Katharine Graham

When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the…

— Mike Colter