“I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's li...” — Tucker Carlson Quote

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

If you think your average Trump voter in Ohio hates Washington, you should see what Washington thinks about the Trump voter in Ohio.

I make sure everything goes evenly in the chamber. But also, I'm kind of the chief executive of the Palace of Westminster, the House of Commons.

I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high school, I joined chamber choir. I wanted to do musical theater, too, but they had rehearsals at the same time. That was a bit of 'Sophie's Choice.'

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.