Quotes About Washington

As a member of Congress representing Southern Nevada, I am always advocating for our tourism industry, talking about our millions of annual visitors, and reminding folks in Washington, D.C., that we are the entertainment capital of the world.

A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.

For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.

As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.

It's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington.

Send me to Washington, and if I can't make a difference, I'll voluntarily come back after just one term. Cut the deficit, slash illegal immigration in half, fix our horrific tax system - or I'll come home and help find somebody that can. That's my product guarantee.

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.

What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that is doing enormous damage.

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

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

I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

I will be sent back to Washington, D.C., with the grace of God and all the Alaskan voters out there because all Alaskans have asked me to go back and continue my service.

Anger is just not who I am, and I don't think it's what voters in the 6th district want. They want respectful, decent representation that contrasts so starkly with what we have in Washington.

Being from the heartland of America, I do not think one should have to go to Washington to seek justice.

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

I'm running for Senate to create real change in Washington, which starts with getting big money out of politics and overturning Citizens United.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.