Behind the scenes Quote by Felix Frankfurter

“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

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

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently…

— Dick Armey

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

— James A. Garfield

In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs…

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“One can see [...] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those…

— Peter Moon

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe…

— Ludwig von Mises

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

— Margaret Heffernan

A king without power is an absurdity.

— James Monroe

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

— Michael Bennet

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

— David Harsanyi

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

— Laozi