Both Quote by David Harsanyi

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

— Beau Willimon

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

— George W. Bush

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

— Michael Bennet

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

— Charles Krauthammer

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the…

— Linda Ellerbee

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

— Tony Goldwyn

Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.

— Bob Latta

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

— Scott Pruitt

There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there.

— Barry Trotz

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

— David Harsanyi