Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
I'm the only honest person in Washington.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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.
Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.