Quotes About Washington

#1. Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#2. Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

Chauncey Depew

#3. A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Ron Fournier

#4. Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

Dennis Miller

#5. I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Muhammad Ali

#6. There is a certain oddity to Larry Fink having problems in Washington. He is a strong Democrat who has close ties to President Obama and has often been rumored as set to take a big administration job, such as Secretary of the Treasury.

Carol Loomis

#7. The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.

Marsha Blackburn

#8. Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.

Elizabeth Ray

#9. Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Antonin Scalia

#10. In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

#11. It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Seymour Hersh

#12. Writing again, he stressed that the events of war are always uncertain. Then, paraphrasing a favorite line from the popular play Cato by Joseph Addison - a line that General Washington, too, would often call upon - Adams told her, We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

David McCullough

#13. I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

Harry Golden

#14. He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.

Erik Larson

#15. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

William E. Simon

#16. I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#17. The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

S.I. Hayakawa

#18. Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

Sally Quinn

#19. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.

Jack Canfield

#20. I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

Barack Obama

#21. In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Charles Krauthammer

#22. Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Steven Wright

#23. Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

Kenneth Keating

#24. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Daniel Webster

#25. The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Nicholas Johnson

#26. In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

Kevin McCarthy

#27. Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.

Oliver DeMille

#29. I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Albert Brooks

#30. Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Jason Chaffetz

#31. Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.

John Barrasso

#32. People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

Scott Walker

#33. The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

Calvin Coolidge

#34. Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

Katie Lowes

#35. Washington had several surrogate sons during the Revolution, most notably the marquis de Lafayette, and he often referred to Hamilton as my boy.

Ron Chernow

#36. I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Beau Willimon

#37. For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'

Gene Weingarten

#38. Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

Eric Schmidt

#39. The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

Robert McChesney

#40. Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#41. When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.

Katharine Graham

#42. We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

Irwin Rose

#43. I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks now. There are people who are leaving the universities and working for the government or in think tanks, simply looking for freedom.

Richard Rodriguez

#44. Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Michelle Malkin

#45. The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,

Stephen E. Ambrose

#46. Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

Anonymous

#47. Once you go Kerry Washington, you can't go back

Tony Goldwyn

#48. It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,
so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

James Russell Lowell

#49. I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.

Dave Barry

#50. I fed the phone again and dialed the Chief of Staff's office, deep inside the Pentagon. A woman's voice answered. It was a perfect Washington voice. Not high, not low, cultured, elegant, nearly accentless.

Lee Child

#51. the government' - that's too sweeping a term. 'The government' is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not 'the government' - but what individuals?

Robert A. Heinlein

#52. Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

Charley Reese

#53. Seattle's Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful ... It's simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

Lee Henderson

#54. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Malcolm X

#55. The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there can be no doubt that the teams who risked, and lost, their lives to save them were extraordinary.

Patrick Lencioni

#56. When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters.

Tom Standage

#57. The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Ronald Kessler

#58. I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that' ... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

Jonathan Banks

#59. I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

Andrew Sullivan

#60. As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

Tom Petri

#61. What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.

Barack Obama

#62. For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

Henry Adams

#63. Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.

George P. Bush

#64. Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives
professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

Barack Obama

#65. Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

Ted Cruz

#66. Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Bert Lance

#67. I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

Booker T. Washington

#68. And please don't call me that.
I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#69. ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington.

Hillary Clinton

#70. A Washington summer is a physical being: a shaggy, slobbering beast; relentless, inescapable, forever panting its heavy, humid breath into the face of each citizen and pushing its weight against the wilting populace, demanding attention-a constant, unwelcome companion.

Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

#71. Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'

Conan O'Brien

#72. Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

Woodrow Wilson

#73. To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about "getting things done in Washington" is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers "Stop Duane Thomas!

Hunter S. Thompson

#74. [WASHINGTON]
It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?

[HAMILTON]
Yes

[WASHINGTON]
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#75. It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.

Ethan Hawke

#76. I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

Wentworth Miller

#77. In an interview with Univision, President Obama said if there's one thing he's learned, it's that you can't change Washington from within. So what is he saying - that if we want real change, we should throw him out?

Jay Leno

#78. Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

James Buchan

#79. There is a saying about relationships in Washington: If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

Katharine Graham

#80. My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

David McCullough

#81. Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

Malcolm Forbes

#82. We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

Rahm Emanuel

#83. I hardly knew what to do. I wanted, of course, to rush down to Washington Square and grip the poor blighter silently by the hand; and then, thinking it over, I hadn't the nerve. Absent treatment seemed the touch. I gave it him in waves.

P.G. Wodehouse

#84. The White House is one of the few places in downtown Washington where you can get something to eat after 11 o'clock at night.

Rosalind Russell

#85. I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

Jim Walsh

#86. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

Kevin Spacey

#87. I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

Steve Israel

#88. Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Robert Southey

#89. Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'

Laurence Silberman

#90. If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump

#91. Quanah Parker. As the years went by he became a shrewd businessman, built a large house, and successfully managed his farm and ranch. He traveled all over the country, and went to Washington to ride in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade.

Dee Brown

#92. Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.

Greta Van Susteren

#93. Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.

Anson Jones

#94. It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind, but when you're a governor you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done!

Chris Christie

#95. When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Ronald Kessler

#96. Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.

Werner Heisenberg

#97. We have two Governments in Washington: one run by the elected people - which is a minor part - and one run by the moneyed interests, which control everything.

Studs Terkel

#98. Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

Vicky Hartzler

#99. Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

#100. The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.

Joseph J. Ellis