Linda Bloodworth-Thompson - [Characterizing Washington DC:] It's so

[Characterizing Washington DC:] It's some sort of incestuous insane asylum where they just keep saying the same thing.

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Linda Bloodworth-Thompson, Television Producer, Quoted in The Washington Post, July 18, 1993

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