Clear Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

— Harry S Truman

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

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Washington can be a frustrating place.

— Chris Murphy

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is…

— Eric Schmidt

I see nothing easy in Washington. I see either analytically simple things that are politically complex or those that are politically complex and analytically…

— Henry Paulson

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great…

— Anthony Trollope

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is,…

— Katharine Graham

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

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 city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is…

— Woodrow Wilson