Rejects Quote by Rick Perry

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system,…

— Ezra Klein

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant…

— Lamar Alexander

We're a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So…

— Scott Pruitt

Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

— Montgomery Schuyler

“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make…

— voltaire

We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the state, materially…

— Ron Paul

We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.

— Narendra Modi

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

— Newt Gingrich

“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