I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern.
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D. C. , as inconsequential in your life as I can.
There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D. C. , and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D. C. , to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
. . . there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D. C.
Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President. '
Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power to change government, and government changed us.
Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable.
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.
It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D. C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.
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 size of my congressional district.
I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U. S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.