Washington Quotes

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. (Ron Paul)

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

P. J. O'Rourke

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman

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

Robert H. Jackson

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.

John Coleman

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.'

Conan O'Brien

To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.

Charles Krauthammer

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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.

George W. Bush

I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. (Fred Thompson)

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

Mort Sahl

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, ... We're going to California and Texas and New York. We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. Then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House.

Howard Dean

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

George Lucas

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

Sarah Palin

Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

Mark Twain

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Barack Obama

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

David Brinkley

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley! (P. J. O'Rourke)

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Stephen Ambrose

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

Hugh Shelton

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.

Sydney Pollack

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