Beat Quote by Kasie Hunt

Wall-to-wall coverage of the political intrigue in Washington focuses on which Capitol Hill players won the daily news cycle, with barely any reference to…

— Pete Buttigieg

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

— Gore Vidal

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little…

— Ron Fournier

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most…

— Judy Woodruff

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

— Steve Kornacki

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the…

— Jon Ossoff

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

— Tony Goldwyn

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

— Dan Rather

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual…

— Ezra Klein

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

— David Grann

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that…

— Rahm Emanuel