Crooked Quote by David Harsanyi

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

— Tony Goldwyn

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”

— Henry Kissinger

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

— Ted Cruz

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

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

— Michael Bennet

Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world.

— Paul Craig Roberts

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

— Bob Latta

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld,…

— Jonathan Franzen

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

The real question should be, what does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?

— Wayne Messam