Hold Quote by Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

— David Harsanyi

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it…

— Antonin Scalia

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system,…

— Ezra Klein

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

— Ted Cruz

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

— Michael Bennet

“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

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

— Mark Twain

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

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

— Tony Goldwyn

It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests…

— Jake Tapper

Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves, for themselves,…

— Ari Melber