Quotes About Anti-Washington

The nation's leaders keep throwing out the word "Washington" as a vulgar abstraction. Nothing new here: the anti-Washington reflex in American politics has been honed for centuries, often by candidates who deride the capital as a swamp, only to settle into the place as if it were a soothing whirlpool bath once they get elected. The city exists to be condemned.

If you think about it, a president blowing off the Correspondents' Association dinner might be a political boon in this anti-Washington day and age, a nod to the "average Americans.