Washington Quotes - page 39

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. (Oscar Wilde)
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait. View quote
Jesse Jackson
I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25. View quote
Glenn Beck
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. View quote
Thomas Friedman
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. View quote
Karl Rove
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort. View quote
John Ashcroft
I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington. View quote
Jesse Ventura
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. View quote
Eric Holder
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. (Marianne Williamson)
In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere. . . . Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions. View quote
Marianne Williamson
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much. View quote
Tariq Ali
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. View quote
Elon Musk
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. View quote
Henry Rollins
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. View quote
Henry Rollins
More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. View quote
Henry Rollins
As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year. View quote
Henry Rollins
Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine. View quote
Henry Rollins
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. (Henry Rollins)
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. View quote
Rush Limbaugh