Quotes About Washington

I'm from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.

I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.

I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

I need a partner in D.C. that cares about jobs.

I want there to be a real partnership between the Department of Justice in Washington and U.S. attorneys.

We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Washington gave the order to Major General John Sullivan that no matter what complaints he heard from the local tribes, he should "not by any means listen to any overture of peace before the total ruinment of their settlements is effected.

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years.

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years. Lobbyists have likened the tax extenders ploy to Lucy pulling the football away from poor Charlie Brown in the last second.

My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.

When I was a little girl, and we would visit my grandmother whenever we were in D.C., she would always greet us at the door in elegant suits or gowns with matching pearls and earrings.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington.

Because I helped organize non-violent protest in Chicago, New York and Washington, I am denied the fundamental freedom to travel to London, even for the purpose of visiting my daughter.