Attitude Quote by Meg Greenfield

“Washington” has become for many a dirty word that connotes self-serving politicians and devious lobbyists. To be sure, they are there, but I remember…

— Dan Rather

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

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

— Tony Goldwyn

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

— Jeb Bush

The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing…

— Sidney Blumenthal

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In…

— Tom Coburn

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power…

— Matt Taibbi

I think the American people out in the heartland have a different view than the people in Washington.

— Christopher Ruddy

I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party,…

— Clay Aiken

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

The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.

— Howard Lutnick

Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves, for themselves,…

— Ari Melber