“Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good,...” — Beau Willimon Quote

“Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.”

“Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.”

“Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.”

“When you just show up where you're invited to go with a sense of humility and knowing who you serve and just sharing your faith or your witness or your story with people, a lot of people can get encouragement out of that. It's never a bad thing.”

“It's not a bad thing for independent traders to come into a high street to mix things up, but what shouldn't happen is that the traders who were there before are priced out.”