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I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

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

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

I never read articles about my books.

I'm not a Washington person.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

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

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

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.