Cliff Sims

You've got Las Vegas for sex.

You've got LA for fame, notoriety.

You've got New York City for money, greed.

And you've got Washington DC for power.

It attracts a certain type of person who wants to go to Washington DC, because the only thing going there is power.

So it attracts the people that are susceptible to that attraction already, and then it gives them, like a junkie,

the drug that they are already addicted to before they even know they want it that bad.

Like, oh, you came here to get a little power, to be a part of this?

We'll give you a little bit.

Oh, you like that?

You want a little bit more?

Let's keep going.

That's the thing that I didn't have any exposure to.

And so for me, it was power.

And I never would have said, first of all, who am I to even have...

What power did I even have?

I'm a White House communications aide or I'm the deputy DNI or whatever.

The president's the one with the power, but it's the proximity to that that is intoxicating.

Everything you do plays out on TV screens around the country and around the world.

Every single person you talk to wants to know what's it like?