Accurate Quote by Rosalynn Carter

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

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

— Dylan Thomas

... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that…

— Storm Jameson

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

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

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

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

“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

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your…

— Doug Liman

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own…

— Tom Rath

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