“I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)”
“There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.”
“You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!”
“Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.”
“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.”
“In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.”