Top 1200 Washington Dc Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Jon Tester continues to tell Montanans one thing and then votes the other way when he's back in Washington D.C.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests.

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Because, I'm not paying $15 for a movie to go watch people being morose about lives that are much more interesting and exciting than mine and they hate them. I'm paying my money to see people sort of revel in doing things that I can't do.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

The people of Montana want to send me to Washington - not to bring home the bacon but to slaughter the hog.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

In 2010, Strikeforce came to Houston, and DC was something like 5-0 or 6-0, and I'd seen him at the expo. I seen him walking around and I seen he had a pink cast on his hand, and I was like, this guy is way too fat... because he looked shorter and fatter. Because back then I was slim, I was like 235. So, I was like, man, I could take this guy.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

When an issue is important to Washington, U.S. officials figure out what leverage they have and use it as assertively and creatively as they can. They don't make excuses.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Covering Capitol Hill was my first assignment in political journalism, and I still think it is the best beat in Washington.

Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.

I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

There's nothing greener than Washington state. They have the most beautiful vegetation on the planet. And the water is so clean.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

I grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. I attended the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1978 to 1984.

It's been proven in Washington: It's very hard to negotiate and try to get a deal done in public.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.