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Booker T. Washington · Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington · Councilman John Bowman commenting on the high crime in Washington · Dominique Jasmine Washington · Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 14, 1957 · George Washington · George Washington Allston · George Washington Carver · George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789 · George Washington, last words, 14 December 1799. · Jack Kemp, Seattle, Washington, Winter 1996/97 lecture series, when asked if he would run for president in 2000 · John Crowley, Of Marvels And Monsters, Washington Post, October 18, 1998 · Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC · Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C. · Martha Dandridge Custis Washington · Martha Washington · Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC · Washington Irving · Washington Irving, American writer and poet · Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985

Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

– Barack Obama

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

– Robert Joseph Bob Dole

...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

– George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

– Fred Thompson

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

– Mark Twain

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping

– Jeff Melvoin

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?

– Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.

– Bob Hope

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

– Robert Frost

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of Palestinian terrorist)

– Muammar Qaddafi

If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

– Edward Irving Koch

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

– Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

– Robert Reich

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

– Newt Gingrich

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

– Ronald Reagan

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

– Barry Goldwater

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

– Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.

Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

– Dazed and Confused

The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

– P. J. O'Rourke

There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.

– Will Rogers

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

– Cokie Roberts, TV interview in either 1992 or 1996

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

– John F. Kennedy

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