Kristin Gore Quotes

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

Everyone in Congress represents Washington.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Washington is not a geographical entity, it is a state of mind.... People understand how Cleveland works. They even understand how New York City works, but they can't figure Washington out.

Good men and women come to Washington and get caught in a culture of corruption.

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

The product of Washington is politics. Other places produce steel.

Washington: A city obsessed with the present.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

I’m always amused by politicians running against Washington, when they desperately want to get to Washington.

It’s tough for Washington to pass complicated legislation.

… lobbyist-larded Washington

Ideology isn’t driving the dynamic in Washington, it’s the desire to stay in power.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

In Washington, every closet has a revolving door.

Washington is a mirror reflecting our instinct.

Mr. Trump has said that he wants a vice president who knows Washington, is able to deal with the Congress, and could be viewed as somebody who could be president.

Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It's a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret.

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.

Washington is too expensive.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

What I see in Washington reminds me of what I saw in Montgomery when I was first elected Alabama's Attorney General. In Montgomery, corruption was the problem, so I assembled the finest public corruption prosecution team in the country. Their work wasn't always popular with the mainstream media or the local politicians. We didn't let that stop us.

I lived in the D.C. area for eight years.

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.