Political Hub Quotes

Washington, D.C., is one of my favorite cities.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

This [Washington DC] is a town of anecdotes.

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

D.C. is a small town with some big-town features.

I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

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 thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

Washington is a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

I lived in the D.C. area for eight years.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.

I love coming to D.C. I think it's a very unusual city. It's so fascinating that it's this weird place that everything thinks of as the capital of the country, there is so much international business, political stuff that is connected to that part of the country that it has a very charred atmosphere.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.