Capitol Quote by Dave Barry

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there…

— Esther Dyson

The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But…

— George Pelecanos

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 think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.

— Kelli Ward

I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what…

— Rosalynn Carter

There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting…

— Tom Brokaw

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are…

— Horace Greeley

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment…

— Dee Dee Myers

“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld,…

— Jonathan Franzen