Power Center Quotes

The Presidency is the vital center of action in America.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

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

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

There is more opportunity for a nobody to become a somebody in Washington than in the whirl-pool of New York.

... 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.

Washington DC—Beirut on the Potomac.

No 10 is the job I want: in the middle of things, moving the ball forward.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

We are practically an island here [the White House.]

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.