Walter Washington

Walter Edward Washington (April 15, 1915 – October 27, 2003) was an American civil servant and politician. After a career in public housing, Washington was the chief executive of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1974, and as the first Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1979.

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Quotes

People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
- Attributed, c. 1971, in Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), p. 253, no. 1,345. Last sentence also in Mary Blount White, Letters from Harry and Helen (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917), ch. 28, p. 119. See also: "Quote Origin: The Customer is Not an Interruption in Our Work; He Is the Purpose of It", Quote Investigator (August 2, 2012)