Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Described Washington as a community of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”

— John F. Kennedy

“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

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

— Bruce Babbitt

“...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.”

— Jean Edward Smith

“True North is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life.”

— Bill George

“North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.”

— Michael Adams

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.…

— Kyle MacLachlan

“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.”

— Samuel Lipman

“While the West tends to medicate pain, the East helps us to embrace it.”

— Dave Gibbons

“it is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself”

— Andrzej Stasiuk

“As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country,…

— David Foster Wallace