Adventure Quote by Studs Terkel

“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

“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

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

— Tim Weiner

“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

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring…

— Miguel Syjuco

“Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal…

— Walter A. McDougall

“I looked around at the embassy people, who were nicely dressed, sipping cocktails and chatting. This could have been anywhere in the civilized world,…

— Nelson DeMille

“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

“He says finally, “It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world.”

— Blake Crouch

“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.”

— David Hackett Fischer

“Surveying a series of news events in the first week of January 1983, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is something brewing…

— Howard Zinn

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel