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Washington Quotes

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.

– Ed Smith

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

– Mark Leibovich

We don’t need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can’t do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.

– Marsha Blackburn

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

– Glenn Beck

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

– Matt Gonzalez

I’d rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

– Dave Heineman

I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.

– Matt Salmon

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

– David Gross

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

– Gale Norton

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

– Dan Benishek

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

– Glenn Greenwald

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.

– Evan Bayh

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

– Ezra Klein

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

– Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that ‘he who wills the ends wills the means,’ but he never spent much time in Washington.

– Elliott Abrams

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins’ legacy.

– Daniel Snyder

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

– Dan Pfeiffer

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

– Mark Leibovich

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it’s Washington, D.C.

– Edward P. Jones

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.

– Fay Wray

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

– Dean Acheson

There’s something called the ‘Washington Read,’ which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they’re in there.

– Mark Leibovich

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

– Dick Morris

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

– Dennis Ross

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt – but most think it’s bipartisan.

– Chuck Todd

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

– Gore Vidal

The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we’re going to go up there and fix it.

– Dan Webster

In all my shows, I’m not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I’m always interested in trying to get the culture of the place – trying to get it right.

– David Nevins

There’s a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

– Gloria Steinem

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

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