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Washington is such an interesting place which is totally worthwhile checking out. We did not think we’d enjoy it nearly as much as we did.

If you love history and politic you will also absolutely love Washington DC! So without further adieu here are some cool Washington DC Quotes!

Washington DC Quotes 

“Washington, DC feels like you’re watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don’t believe them, I don’t believe what they say, I don’t think they’re being absolutely sincere. I think it’s performance art. And most of them are bad actors.” – Kevin Spacey

“It is true what is said in Washington – ‘No matter how cynical you get, it’s never enough to catch up.’ ” – Louie Eohmert

“Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.” – Charles Krauthammer

“Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.” – Ted Cruz

“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.” – John F. Kennedy

“In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.” – Chuck Klosterman

“If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country.” – Mark Steyn

“Make sure of two things: Be careful — microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, DC, a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.” – Joe Biden

“Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.” – Harry Shearer

“Hardly anybody tells the truth these days. For the truth I have to go to Washington DC, and whatever a politician says, interpolate the opposite.” – Jarod Kintz

Washington DC Instagram Captions

Filling my camera roll with pictures of Washington D.C.

Just a girl who decided to go for it.

It’s your time to bloom.

Born to make history and beautiful change.

My favorite color is cherry blossom.

“When they go low, we go high.” — Michelle Obama

Today’s forecast: 100 percent chance of museum tours, sightseeing, and cherry blossoms.

I came, I saw, I fell in love with Washington D.C.

Made in the U.S.A.

But first, let’s go sightseeing in Washington D.C.

Washington DC Funny Quotes

“So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.” – Julian Assange

“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!” – Harry S. Truman

“Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.” – Andrew Johnson

“I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.” – Sandra Bullock

“When somebody comes along and says, “I think Washington, DC, sucks,” that’s not wrong.” – Van Jones

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Quotes about Monuments in Washington DC

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Quotation

“They who seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers… Call this a new order. it is not new and it is not order.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Quotation

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Strength to Love, 1963.

“In all my shows, I’m not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I’m always interested in trying to get the culture of the place – trying to get it right.” – David Nevins

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” 

“Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe” – Arnold Bennett

“There’s as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.” – Morris Sheppard

White House Quotes

“It is true that when you’re in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.” – Nancy Reagan

“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” – Joe Biden

“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.” – Woodrow Wilson

“Government usually doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don’t need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living.”

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House– with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” ― John F. Kennedy

“As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together – and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.” – Melania Trump

“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.” – Calvin Coolidge

“The White House is the people’s house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.” – Iris Apfel

“The White House is the finest prison in the world.” – Harry S. Truman

“Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.” – Barbara Bush

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.” – Abraham Lincoln

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country” – Abraham Lincoln

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  • MC Miller

    MC Miller is a travel blogger and writer who has travelled America extensively and abroad to over 80 countries. He founded Couple Travel The World in 2017. Since then, he has spent over 6 years on the road as a full time travel couple. When he not traveling he likes to spend quality time with his partner Bett, planning our their next date or romantic getaway!