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• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  Ted Yoho

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• The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• Six decades ago, as Mao’s Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, ‘Who lost China?’ Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, ‘Who lost America?’

  Eric Liu

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  Tags in Communist, Question, Washington

• I’ve seen disgusting excess in business, and I’ve seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I’ve certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can’t ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

  Esther Dyson

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Self, Disgusting, Washington

• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it’s the system – there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it’s a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

  Esther Dyson

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• I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

  Candice S. Miller

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• Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

  Dylan Thomas

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  My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  Barack Obama

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• Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

  John F. Kennedy

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• From Washington, proverbially “the city of distances,” through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Its a sad day when you have members of Congress who are literally criminals go undisciplined by their colleagues. No wonder people look at Washington and know this city is broken.

  John Kerry

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

  Ralph Nader

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• Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.

  Robert Orben

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• When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

  John Kerry

  Topics in Justice, Suffering

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• The Administrations willingness to consistently abandon the truth has done great damage. Americans are less willing to listen less likely to trust or take anything that is said in Washington seriously.

  John Kerry

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• I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy, Power

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• Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

  Steven Wright

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• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

  Tom Glazer

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• Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

  Dean Cain

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