Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians and I love to watch both of 'em play either back home in their native state or after they have been captured and sent to the zoo or to Washington.

- Will Rogers

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

- John F. Kennedy