Quotes About Washington

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

This is about Floridians saying what's most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So it's very exciting.

Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.