Top 1200 Washington Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time in Washington.
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
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.
That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for Washington to change on its own.
I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.
I tend to read 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' online, and I go to the website for the BBC. I am a junkie when it comes to the news.
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.
I'm tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and then going to Washington, D.C., or Denver or wherever and completely forgetting about you.
I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
I love my husband, and I wanted to support him, but the transition to Washington has been my hardest experience. I felt very lonely and isolated.
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.
In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.
I just don't think we're going to change Washington until we put some people down there who look like average Marylanders.
That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.
Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.
Whether you know who Denzel Washington is or you don't, when he walks into the room, you're going to pay attention, because he's just such a powerful man.
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.
If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
Thats been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, thats like, youre alone.
We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.
Sometimes I'm in Boston or Washington or Chicago and think I'm in Jamaica because I hear more reggae on the radio in these places than in Kingston!
You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.
The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.
I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'
Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.
I remember being in Washington for high school when the city was on fire and those were troubling times, the Vietnam War, the protests.
The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.
I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln faced enormous difficulties, but they both gave their lives to make sure America survived.
The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
Since arriving in Washington in January 2015, I have pushed for a strategic framework that clearly articulates how we'll tackle threats in cyberspace.
By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.
But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.
We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.
The priority of leadership is what the lobbyists and giant corporations and special interests in Washington want. It's why we're bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
Why on earth do we keep sending bozos like Michael Bennet back to Washington when they fail to get anything done?
I hear from everybody, and they say Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense. Were not hired to fight.
I was a journalism major in college, went to law school, and became a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. I loved it and was with the Department of Justice for years.
Our country needs more bold, conservative leaders that will actually do what they promised to do prior to coming to Washington D.C.
Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
