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“In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and…

— David McCullough

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

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

— Booker T. Washington

“There were plots afoot—plans of deceit, treason, and betrayal—and the only hope the Americans had to survive them was to be prepared. Washington knew…

— Brian Kilmeade

“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

“And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They…

— David Baldacci

“But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here…

— Pirate Lanford

“Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.”

— Tim Weiner

“Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.”

— Anonymous

“Of course, at some point you had to ask yourself how much legitimacy any government had that feared dissension within more than invasion from…

— Yoon Ha Lee

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

— Scott Pruitt