Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.