I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

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

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said...

The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil...

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

I’m trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that’s in place is not what’s beneficial in the country.

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.

Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the skies of Manhattan. Even as the ashes and ruin of this horrific act...

I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that’s the...

Washington’s a dangerous place.

I don’t know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

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

This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It’s a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the...

Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times...

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.

Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a...

You know, one thing I’ve learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that’s what I’m doing as secretary of defense.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven.” Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable....

I don’t want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

I’m the only honest person in Washington.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don’t even like.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

We’ll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won’t be easy. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

Then the coxswain called out, ‘Ready all!’ Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and...

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British...

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and...

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words ‘Special Relationship’ to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

If that was good enough for George Washington, it’s good enough for me.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.