My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
Steven Wright

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
Dennis Miller

Washington, DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.
Dennis Miller

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

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S. Truman

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman