“I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life ...” — Beau Willimon Quote

“I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.”

“The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.”

“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.”

“They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.”

“I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.”

“I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.”