Howard Baker Quotes

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

[Characterizing Washington DC:] It's some sort of incestuous insane asylum where they just keep saying the same thing.

The trees are fantastic in Washington. If you're a tree, it's a great town. If you're a person, there's nothing to do.

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.

This [Washington DC] is a town of anecdotes.

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

Here’s a little Washington clue. When they say, “With all due respect,” they’re about to insult you.

The progress of evolution, from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.... Grant should have lived in a cave and worn skins.

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

Woodrow Wilson, an overt racist, re-segregated Washington DC.

Washington is too small to be a nation but too large to be an insane asylum.

Washington is a one issue city ... whatever dominates the headlines.

Washington DC has become an evidence-free zone.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

In Washington, if you don't win, you lose. If you don't survive, you die. If you don't prosper, you fail.

I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public office in Washington. Here ruining people is considered a sport … Politics is a blood sport.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

There's a can't-do attitude in this town [Washington DC] that I haven't seen anywhere else ... It's like running through a field of marshmallows in terms of getting anything done.

I came to Washington where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore.

Washington: A city obsessed with the present.

Washington talks about herself and almost nothing else.

In Washington, common sense policy is considered bold.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago.... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.