Washington Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Christopher Columbus
• Winston Churchill
• Anne Frank
• Bill Cosby
• Ronald Reagan
• Stephen King
• Vladimir Putin
• George Washington
• Galileo Galilei
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 19th June

Births

• 1975 - Hugh Dancy
• 1921 - Howell Heflin
• 1928 - Barry Took
• 1966 - Joichi Ito
• 1966 - Samuel West

Deaths

• 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg
• 1878 - Charles Hodge
• 1794 - Richard Henry Lee
• 1867 - Henry Dodge
• 1820 - Joseph Banks

• What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spend, Washington

• Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

  Charles Joseph Scarborough

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washington, Ugly

• We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don’t know.

  Peter Jennings

  Topics in Power

  Tags in World, Washington

• But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn’t go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Member, Washington

• I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Self, Washington

• I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

  George Stigler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washington, University

• I don’t want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

  George Nethercutt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washington, Establishment

• And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Department, Washington

• Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

  Joshua Micah Marshall

  Topics in Power

  Tags in City, Washington

• Two million dollars is only small when you’re talking about Washington, D.C.

  Geoff Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Washington

• In Washington, there’s always an effort to label people.

  Gale Norton

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in People, Washington

• Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

  Sarah Palin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washington, Taxes

• When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

  Ed Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Washington

• There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

  John Thune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Battle, Washington

• Raising taxes doesn’t create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn’t get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn’t work.

  Kevin Yoder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taxes, Washington

• If that was good enough for George Washington, it’s good enough for me.

  Ted Yoho

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Washington, George

• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  Ted Yoho

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Neither, Washington

• The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dealer, Washington

• The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dealer, Car, Washington

• Six decades ago, as Mao’s Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, ‘Who lost China?’ Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, ‘Who lost America?’

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Communist, Question, Washington