(1602 quotes found)
“Washington was a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
Mark Twain
“When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.”
Robert H. Jackson
“Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.”
Senator John Kerry
“Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.”
Barbara Jordan
“How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!”
John Mason Brown
“Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.”
Patrick Buchanan
“To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.”
James Buchanan
“We must encourage American businesses and farmers by weeding out the excessive red tape that Washington has been creating over the past decade. Regulations act as a hidden tax, and if we are not careful, they can begin to suffocate small businesses, destroy jobs, and choke off economic growth.”
Steve Forbes
