Beau Willimon Quotes

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.

The product of Washington is politics. Other places produce steel.

It’s tough for Washington to pass complicated legislation.

Things happen slower than you think that they will, but when they do occur, they happen much faster than you think they will.

Washington's a mess, but that's not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

I'm not revolted by Washington.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.