Quotes About Washington Dc

#1. Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Andrew Johnson

#2. Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says, interpolate the opposite.

Jarod Kintz

#3. Make sure of two things: Be careful
microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, DC, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

Joe Biden

#4. The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC.

Herman Cain

#5. In case anyone in America had missed the utter helplessness of their government, 4,000 British troops captured and burned Washington DC. The Presidential mansion, where the decision for war had been taken, was one of the public buildings to be torched.

Andrew D. Lambert

#6. In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

#7. If she couldn't be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.
Sera's mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee.

Erin Kellison

#8. In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

Anita Hill

#9. Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Andrew Natsios

#10. Mixologist at a bar in the heavily gentrified Shaw neighbourhood, I fear I haven't a skinny-jeaned leg to stand on. S.D. PLATTON Washington, DC

Anonymous

#11. Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

Dennis Miller

#12. If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.

Mark Steyn

#13. So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

Julian Assange

#14. The most pressing problem facing America can't be solved in Washington DC. True hope and change can't be found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It can only be found at the foot of the cross on Calvary.

Todd Starnes

#15. Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

Ralph Nader

#16. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....

J. Fally

#17. Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.

George F. Will

#18. I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Alexandra Kerry

#19. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

George W. Bush

#20. You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Harry Truman

#21. What is more important to a library than anything else
than everything else
is the fact that it exists.
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

Archibald MacLeish

#22. We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I'm the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.

Michele Bachmann

#23. In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

Chuck Klosterman

#24. The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

John Hall

#25. I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

Henry Rollins

#26. Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

David Chang

#27. Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

Harry Shearer

#28. Washington, DC does not have to live with much of what they produce legislatively for us.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

Earl Warren

#30. [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

Kevin Spacey

#31. I had a dream about you. You looked like you, but you also looked like a mannequin. And I looked like me, but I also looked like a mannequin. Between the two of us, we were too fake even for Hollywood. And as such, we were forced to reside in Washington DC.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#32. Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

Richard Edward Harding

#33. I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

Sonia Sotomayor

#34. Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

Glenn Greenwald

#35. Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

Christopher Hitchens

#36. 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

#37. Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

Paul Beatty

#38. All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as he reached the Virginia side.

Charles McCarry

#39. ...it was easy to forget that Washington was just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento, legislators and lobbyists and bureaucrats and their clerks working and reworking the sodden language of government in order to distribute the spoils.

Ward Just

#40. I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sluggish, naked, dead asses off of their comfortable heated-seat toilets. -Fitzhugh to Captain Jeeter

Ray Palla

#41. Funny thing about love, ain't it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn't enough.

Eden Butler

#42. I know where a lot of them [the elite or elitists] live.
Where's that?
Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there.

John McCain

#43. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#44. When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Glenn Greenwald

#45. Snowmageddon.
Dirty glacial clouds hammered the city's anvil. On the District of Columbia's northwestern edge, gusts of snow rolled across the Park Road Bridge like volcanic ash.

Simon Conway

#46. You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#47. Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.

Congressman X

#48. President George Washington's namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an "Empire of Liberty" for the world.

Patrick Mendis

#49. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#50. A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ.

Dave Barry

#51. Both parties promote "changing Washington," but in reality they like Washington just the way it is: little gets done that they don't like, and none of our officials are truly held accountable.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#52. I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington.

Glenn Greenwald