Quotes About Washington

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

As a fellow member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.

The people's delegates had ratified Washington as much as they had ratified a constitution.

Washington rightly called this "a new phenomenon in the political & moral world; and an astonishing victory gained by enlightened reason over brutal force.

Providence, too, Washington believed, played a part, and assured a bright future for the United States.

Washington clearly enjoyed himself in Annapolis. He danced every dance at the governor's ball, accommodating all the ladies who lined up for the privilege of getting a touch of him. After the thirteen formal toasts at Congress's banquet, he added a concluding one of his own: "Competent Powers to Congress for general purposes."59 It had become his mantra. As much as he wished to get home to Virginia, he was also at home here in the swirl of continental politics.

Every art that could inflame the passions and touch the interests of men has been essayed," Washington complained in early April 1788.

BY ALL ACCOUNTS, HOWEVER, Washington did not want the presidency.

By the end of 1787, with final results having reached Mount Vernon from three states and favorable reports from many others, Washington exuded optimism about the Constitution. "New England (with the exception of Rhode Island, which seems itself, politically speaking, to be an exception from all that is good) it is believed will chearfully and fully accept it," Washington wrote to Lafayette in early January.

For Washington, at age fifty-five, health was an ongoing issue and one reason he repeatedly gave for his retirement from public life. He had suffered from dysentery, pleurisy, quinsy, severe headaches, fevers, and a mild case of smallpox in the past, and the quinsy and headaches periodically returned.

Washington's eyesight and hearing were also failing, and his teeth posed persistent and painful problems.

Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington, is that he behaves more like a president than a prime minister.

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

It's time for Washington to get out of the way and quit killing American jobs.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

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.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.