Washington Quotes

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

Lie, Youth, Ignorant

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

Change, Time, Government

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

Down, Brother, Ten

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

City, Charm, Efficiency

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

Men, Wise, Find

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

Power, History, Away

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

Father, Him, After

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, Moral, While

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

Love, Money, Near

What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama

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

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

Asked, Whipped, Quarter

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Good, Bad, Vote

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Mitt Romney

Understand, America, Sometimes

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul

America, Play, Between

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

Great, Sorry, Political

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, While, Economic

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

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
Mitt Romney

Business, Become, Opposition

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates

Between, System, Line

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Luke Scott

Country, Gun, Point

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

Home, Wrong, Everyone

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
Donald Trump

Time, Mean, Anybody

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

Government, Stop, Works

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

Remember, Hell, Here

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
Paul Ryan

Money, Successful, Small

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Gore Vidal

Country, Interested, Interest

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

Time, Rather, Spend

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?
Herman Cain

Before, Public, Office

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

Forget, Why, Place

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