“Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
Mark Twain
“Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Benjamin Franklin
“that I have lived to the time when the Ukrainian president is elected not in Moscow, not in Washington, but in Ukraine.”
Viktor Yushchenko
“It's time to stop the leaks and spin and turn Washington into one big recovery meeting where people say what they mean and mean what they say,”
Jim Ramstad
“[Bush recalled Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to Washington just before September 11, saying he told Fox at that time,] the United States has no more important relationship in the world than with Mexico. ... I meant it then, and I mean it now.”
George Bush
