A Quote by Andrew Johnson

Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Andrew Johnson

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Andrew Johnson
American - President
December 29, 1808 - July 31, 1875

Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

Scott Walker

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

E. M. Forster

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Tom Clancy

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Paul Kantner

With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

Jay Inslee

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

Pam Houston

A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

Oliver Evans

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

Dennis Miller

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

Ralph Nader

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

Helen Clark

Why would you want to shut down a nuclear plant, which requires at most about 1 square mile of land, to replace that power source with windmills, which would require 300 square miles of land to be paved over?