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Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

Washington Is kind of dead. It's a nice place, but It's not like New York.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.

I didn't come to Washington to be part of the problem.

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.