Washington Dc Politics Quotes

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

Armstrong Williams

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

Glenn Greenwald

#3. My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Edith Konecky

#4. Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

Allen Klein

#5. 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

#6. ...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

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

Paul Beatty

#8. I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

Felix Baumgartner

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

Julian Assange

#10. 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

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

Christopher Hitchens

#12. 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

#13. Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance ...

Freya Stark

#14. Don't misunderestimate me ...

George W. Bush

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

Glenn Greenwald

#16. I'm the quiet bass player.

Colin Hanks

#17. Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things ... the right technique, colour or brush ... can make all the difference,

Rae Morris

#18. The purpose of all knowledge, metaphysical as well as scientific, is to achieve what Epicurus called ataraxia, freedom from irrational fears and anxieties of all sorts - in brief, peace of mind.

Epicurus

#19. My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

Socrates

#20. I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Patrick O'Brian

#21. 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

#22. I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like. - Emile

Erin Loechner

#23. 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

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

Harry Truman

#25. 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

#26. You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Luis Gonzalez

#27. 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

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

Glenn Greenwald

#29. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley