Quotes About Washington

You've got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There's no countervailing power.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more distinguished for valor and perseverance" than any other American, including Washington, wondered why the enemy was wasting his "military talents" and had permitted him "thus to fall into the unmerciful fangs of the executive council of Pennsylvania."1

He claimed as a loss that "in consequence of his loyalty and engagements with Sir Henry Clinton he refused the command of the American Army in South Carolina, offered him by Washington, which was afterwards given to Greene, who [the memorialist is informed] has been rewarded . . . with the sum of 20,000 pounds . . . which would probably have been given to [Arnold] had he accepted the command."78

The National Endowment for Democracy, an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not in love with US foreign policy, is Washington's foremost non-military tool for effecting regime change. The NED website listed sixty-five projects that it had supported financially in recent years in Ukraine.

He is the purest figure in history. -- About George Washington

There are twice as many governmental public-relations men in Washington as there are journalists.

se halla en Vancouver[2], en el estado de Washington.

Cassie comes across as serious and studious, but once, after dinner in Washington with a group of NASA people, I asked her if her job title invited a lot of Men in Black questions. With little provocation, she suddenly reached into her purse, donned a pair of sleek black sunglasses, frowned seriously, and flashed a very official-looking "Planetary Protection Officer" badge at me. The fact