300 Quotes on Washington

• We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Author: Zev Yaroslavsky

• The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

  Author: Joe Wurzelbacher

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

  Author: Steven Wright

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  Author: Fay Wray

• I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.

  Author: Joanne Woodward

• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• 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.

  Author: John Wise

• 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.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

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

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

  Author: George Will

• Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

  Author: Michael Wilbon

• During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is always a challenge.

  Author: Jeanne Welles

• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  Author: Felix Weldon

• All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.

  Author: Robert Welch

• On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• 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.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

  Author: Greg Walden

• I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.

  Author: Greg Walden

• On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

  Author: Jon Voight

• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

  Author: Julia Tyler

• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

  Author: Mark Twain

• If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

  Author: Donald Trump

• Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

  Author: Harry Truman

• You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

  Author: Chuck Todd

• In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

  Author: Dylan Thomas

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  Author: Randall Terry

• I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

  Author: Hilary Swank

• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Author: Anna Strong

• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  Author: I. Stone

• As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

  Author: George Stigler

• The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

  Author: James Somerville

• Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

  Author: James Somerville

• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  Author: Ed Smith

• 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.

  Author: Ed Smith

• The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.

  Author: Ed Smith

• I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

  Author: Ed Smith

• 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.

  Author: Ed Smith

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

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

  Author: William Simon

• I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• 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.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.

  Author: William Scranton

• Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

  Author: Luke Scott

• Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.

  Author: Loretta Sanchez

• Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Author: Mort Sahl

• Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

  Author: Eric Rudolph

• 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.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

  Author: Darius Rucker

• The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• 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.

  Author: Mike Ross

• Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

  Author: Will Rogers

• In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

  Author: Frank Rich

• But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

  Author: Donna Rice

• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  Author: Mercer Reynolds

• I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

  Author: Janet Reno

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  Author: Ed Rendell

• I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

  Author: Jodi Rell

• In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

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

  Author: Sally Quinn

• This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• Barack Obama is the worst president in history. In my generation, we'll inherit a weakened country, drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

  Author: Mark Pryor

• One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

  Author: Pete Pont

• For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

  Author: John Podhoretz

• 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.

  Author: Tom Petri

• Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

  Author: Rick Perry

• This administration in Washington... clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but it's the most qualified to make essential decisions for every American in every area. That mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American.

  Author: Rick Perry

• This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.

  Author: Rick Perry

• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Author: Richard Perle

• The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

  Author: Mike Pence

• 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.

  Author: Mike Pence

• People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

  Author: Claiborne Pell

• The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

  Author: Ron Paul

• The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  Author: Rand Paul

• Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

  Author: Gordon Parks

• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Author: Gordon Parks

• Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

  Author: Jack Paar

• Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

  Author: Major Owens

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

  Author: Robert Orben

• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  Author: Pat Oliphant

• That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

  Author: Christine O'Donnell

• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  Author: Barack Obama

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Author: Barack Obama

• In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

  Author: Gale Norton

• I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

  Author: Douglass North

• Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

  Author: Kristi Noem

• We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

  Author: Kristi Noem

• It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

  Author: John Nicolay

• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

  Author: George Nethercutt

• I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

  Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

• When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

  Author: Ben Nelson

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

  Author: Andrew Natsios

• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

  Author: Daniel Nathans

• The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

  Author: Bill Moyers

• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

  Author: Dick Morris

• People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

  Author: Dennis Moore

• And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

  Author: George Mitchell

• 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.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• 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.

  Author: Dennis Miller

• Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

  Author: Dennis Miller

• I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

  Author: Candice Miller

• The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• 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.

  Author: David McCullough

• 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.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

  Author: Eric Massa

• I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

  Author: Derek Luke

• Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

  Author: Mike Lowry

• Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

  Author: Jay Leno

• 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.

  Author: Jay Leno

• When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

  Author: Erich Leinsdorf

• Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

  Author: Diane Kruger

• My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

  Author: Joel Kotkin

• I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

  Author: Tony Kornheiser

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

  Author: Edward Koch

• One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

  Author: Ayatollah Khomeini

• But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  Author: John Kennedy

• Every bit of money that we can bring from our federal transportation budget in Washington back here to Stewart Airport will benefit our local economy and our local residents.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• 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.

  Author: Anson Jones

• I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

  Author: Kristen Johnston

• Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

  Author: James Johnson

• I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

  Author: Peter Jennings

• Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

  Author: C. James

• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

  Author: C. James

• Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

  Author: C. James

• Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

  Author: Hugh Jacobsen

• When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

  Author: Robert Jackson

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

  Author: Steve Israel

• Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Author: Ada Huxtable

• In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

  Author: William Hull

• I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

  Author: Bob Hope

• The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

  Author: Simon Hoggart

• In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

  Author: Simon Hoggart

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

  Author: Anita Hill

• But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• 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.

  Author: Seymour Hersh

• In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.

  Author: Steven Hatfill

• As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Author: Albert Hart

• This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting.

  Author: Katherine Harris

• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  Author: W. Harriman

• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Author: Henry Hampton

• 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.

  Author: John Hall

• I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

  Author: David Guterson

• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

  Author: William Greider

• If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

  Author: William Greider

• The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

  Author: William Greider

• The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

  Author: William Greider

• We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

  Author: Christine Gregoire

• In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

  Author: Meg Greenfield

• I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

  Author: Harold Greene

• The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

  Author: Al Goldstein

• I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

  Author: Danny Glover

• I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

  Author: Bill Gates

• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Author: Robert Frost

• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  Author: Antonia Fraser

• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  Author: Felix Frankfurter

• But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

  Author: Jim Fowler

• So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

  Author: Harold Ford

• You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

  Author: Steve Forbes

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

  Author: Mike Ferguson

• President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

  Author: Peter Fenn

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  Author: Frances Farmer

• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Author: Edward Everett

• I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

  Author: John Engler

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  Author: Larry Elder

• There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

  Author: John Edwards

• I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

  Author: Billy Eckstine

• I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

  Author: Jim Doyle

• What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.

  Author: Laura Dern

• What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

  Author: Bill Delahunt

• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

  Author: Howard Dean

• We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

  Author: Gray Davis

• Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

  Author: Geoff Davis

• As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

  Author: Geena Davis

• I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

  Author: John Danforth

• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

  Author: David Cross

• I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

  Author: Norm Crosby

• We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

  Author: Jim Costa

• But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

  Author: John Cornyn

• But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

  Author: John Cornyn

• The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

  Author: John Coleman

• Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.

  Author: Howard Coble

• There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

  Author: Adam Clymer

• When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

  Author: Adam Clymer

• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

  Author: Ron Chernow

• In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

  Author: Linda Chavez

• I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

  Author: Chevy Chase

• You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

  Author: Steve Chabot

• Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

  Author: Liz Carpenter

• Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

  Author: Tucker Carlson

• Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

  Author: Tucker Carlson

• I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

  Author: Lois Capps

• If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

  Author: Eric Cantor

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  Author: Vincent Canby

• Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?

  Author: Herman Cain

• Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

  Author: Dean Cain

• I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.

  Author: Lauren Bush

• I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  Author: George Bush

• Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

  Author: George Bush

• It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

  Author: Francine Busby

• Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

  Author: Francine Busby

• 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.

  Author: Ken Buck

• Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

  Author: Pat Buchanan

• To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

  Author: James Buchanan

• Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

  Author: Scott Brown

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