All Quotes

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
‐‐ Joshua Micah Marshall

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.
‐‐ James Green Somerville

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

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.
‐‐ Maureen Dowd

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

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
‐‐ Ada Louise Huxtable

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
‐‐ Bill Halter

Washington is built on power.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Washington is dominated by big money.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
‐‐ Joe Scarborough

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.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Washington Is kind of dead. It's a nice place, but It's not like New York.
‐‐ Shelly Burch

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.
‐‐ Desiree Rogers

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
‐‐ Fred Allen

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.
‐‐ Tom Rath

Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
‐‐ Bill Flores

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
‐‐ John Delaney

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

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers

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.
‐‐ Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

Washington is unpredictable these days.
‐‐ Steve Wynn

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Washington newspaper men know everything.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
‐‐ Jason T. Smith

Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.
‐‐ Brad Wenstrup

Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

Washington's a cesspool of money.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

Washington's Alfalfa Club dinner is a populist's nightmare.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
‐‐ Albert Bushnell Hart

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.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
‐‐ Rick Perry