“'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.”

“If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.”

“When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.”

“- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about? - The one in Washington, D.C.”

“If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.”

“The fact that you can go to the bathroom on an airplane is pretty novel. I bet nobody expected that a hundred years ago. Can you imagine two sailors looking over the front rails of their massive ocean liner in the early 1900s, one of them pointing way up in the clouds and whispering to the other, “One day a man will take a crap up there.” No, me either.”