D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.
I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
Washington, D.C., is not a subtle city. Unlike the capitals of other once-great powers which, many hundreds of years old, present a more seamless meshing of monumental memory and daily life, D.C. is constructed to shout, 'Here I am! I am powerful!' to the world.
Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.
Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.
[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
