Washington Quotes

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

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

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.