Air Quote by Barry Trotz

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

— David Harsanyi

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

— Beau Willimon

Washington's a dangerous place.

— Jack Abramoff

“The nation’s leaders keep throwing out the word “Washington” as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been…

— Mark Leibovich

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that…

— Rahm Emanuel

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders…

— Booker T. Washington

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange…

— Woodrow Wilson

I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in…

— Barack Obama

I'm not a Washington person.

— Elizabeth Warren

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

— Scott McClellan

Washington can be a frustrating place.

— Chris Murphy

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

— John Podhoretz