Top 100 Quotes About D.c
#1. The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution,
Jeb Bush
#2. Listen here people, listen to me
Don't try to buy no home down in Washington D.C.
'Cause it's a bourgeois town
wooh it's a bourgeois town!
I got the bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the news all around
Huddie Ledbetter
#3. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno
#4. You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.
John Ensign
#5. There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
Gary Ackerman
#6. Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.
David Letterman
#7. I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
Alan G. Poindexter
#8. Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
Mike Ross
#9. - Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about?
- The one in Washington, D.C.
Tara Janzen
#10. I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
Xavier Becerra
#11. I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
Herman Cain
#12. Dr. Esserman, who directs the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, is one of only a few surgeons in the United States willing to put women with D.C.I.S. on active surveillance instead of performing biopsies, lumpectomies or mastectomies.
Katie Hafner
#13. Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Bill O'Reilly
#14. I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.
Bob McDonnell
#15. I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.
Steve Daines
#16. I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.
Kristin Gore
#17. I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.
Kevin McCarthy
#18. I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
Daniel Boulud
#19. I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.
Daniel Boulud
#20. There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.
Jason T. Smith
#21. The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.
Tony Hale
#22. I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
Bob Hope
#23. Maybe I'll walk by one of my old apartments, the second one I lived in after I first came to the city from that much duller metropolis, Washington, D.C. That
Kathleen Rooney
#24. I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
Jose Andres
#25. I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004
George W. Bush
#26. We need to build and strengthen one another. We must never lose sight of the fact that we are to "succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees." (D&C 81:5)
Gordon B. Hinckley
#27. [On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.
Evelyn Anthony
#28. I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player.
(on signing for D.C. United)
Freddy Adu
#29. Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.
Ben Shapiro
#30. Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.
Dan Groat
#31. You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.
Kristin Gore
#32. Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.
Chellie Pingree
#33. It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
Bob Hope
#34. The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.
Mike Pence
#35. (When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became
Bill Bryson
#36. I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
Kim Gordon
#37. D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin ... and you. I'll be there soon.
Sarah Dessen
#38. In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.
Cedric Richmond
#39. From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.
Stella Young
#40. After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
Henry Rollins
#41. I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.
Daniel Boulud
#42. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.
Michael Specter
#43. It is time for Republicans in D.C. to fight. Too often, they give up; they negotiate with themselves. They said they would get rid of the unconstitutional amnesty. They didn't do that. They said they would repeal Obamacare if we gave them the majority. They didn't do that, either.
Bobby Jindal
#44. You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
Rick Scott
#45. Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.
Geoff Davis
#46. It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
Edward P. Jones
#48. When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.
JR
#49. So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
Tori Amos
#50. Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?
Herman Cain
#51. Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.
Thao Nguyen
#52. I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
Chaske Spencer
#53. A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'
Jimmy Fallon
#54. I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
Ted Cruz
#55. Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.
Conan O'Brien
#56. The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary.
Jeffrey Toobin
#57. I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.
Dennis Miller
#58. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
Wale
#59. I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.
Michael Steele
#60. Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
Jose Ferreira
#61. I'm looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.
Keith Rothfus
#62. There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
James Lankford
#63. What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.
Steve Southerland
#64. Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
Robert Breault
#65. I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
Alec Baldwin
#66. I had to assume, of course, that every word Koblenz had told me, including "and" and "the," was a lie. That was a given. But I operated on that assumption most of the time anyway: Washington, D.C., is to lying what Hershey, Pennsylvania, is to chocolate.
Joseph Finder
#67. Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing.
Brian Schweitzer
#68. Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.
Bill Maher
#69. Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
Warren Rudman
#70. The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and crooks.
Glenn Beck
#71. What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
Kal Penn
#72. The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
James Lankford
#73. We want you to break into the Smithsonian."
"Always a pleasure," Nick said.
Kate raised an eyebrow at Nick. "You've done it before?"
Nick shrugged. "Nobody goes to D.C. without visiting the Smithsonian."
"Most people go when it's open."
"I don't like crowds.
Janet Evanovich
#74. His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.
Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010
Joe Biden
#75. The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Nancy Pelosi
#76. A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.
Sharon Begley
#77. It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.
Debbi Peterson
#78. D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.
Robin Wright
#79. Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
Ed Smith
#80. Satan has bigger fish to fry,
mostly in Washington, D.C.
Now how about dinner?
Ellen Hopkins
#81. Women are still chronically underrepresente d in U.S. politics, at both a local and national level. But there's one city, where those three top jobs will be filled by women for the next year, and that city is Washington, D.C.
Chuck Todd
#82. In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
Burt Prelutsky
#83. Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.
Linda Wertheimer
#84. Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.
Kristin Gore
#85. There is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
Bill Moyers
#86. My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.
Mike Pompeo
#87. When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
Ed Smith
#88. What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
Tony Hale
#89. I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.
Ken Buck
#90. When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.
Michele Bachmann
#91. Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
Karen DeCrow
#92. I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in D.C. that's based on ethics and first principles and political philosophy, and not this constant bickering of, 'Are you Right or Left?'
Dave Brat
#93. D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
Justin Theroux
#94. I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
David Gross
#95. Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.
Kevin Yoder
#96. I wish continued success to the Foundation. You're doing an important job to help what is called 'the beautiful game'. You're helping it to expand at every level. I will always remember this very special night in Washington, D.C.
Lamar Hunt
#97. Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It's good she's in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.
Geraldo Rivera
#98. I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.
Glenn Beck
#99. My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
Carla Hall
#100. I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
Ina Garten
