There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government. . .
The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D. C. , solution.
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D. C. It's no joke, that history.
Washington. . . has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.
All this money washing around Washington and all of these contributions taint all of us.
Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.
Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.
. . . there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D. C.
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you?. . . It isn't?
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong andor misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
Boys go to Washington to be somebody. . . men go to do something.
We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.
I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.
In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!
The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.