Washington, D.C.

“If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.”

“So I came to Washington, where I knew I would be farther away from America than I could be on some foreign shore; not that I do not respect this as a good part of America but in its general routine the heart of America is felt less here than at any place I have ever been.”

“If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.”

“There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.”

“Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.”

“I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.”

“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”

“If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.”

“An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.”

“Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young.”

“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”