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We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.