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The president's stump speeches could carry the forced air of a Van Halen reunion tour with Sammy Hagar in for David Lee Roth.

the capital commandments of self-interest, self-importance, self-enrichment, and self-perpetuation.

Tim Russert is dead. But the room was alive. You can't work it too hard at a memorial service, obviously. It's the kind of thing people notice.

You know you've made it in D.C. when someone says that--"It isn't clear what he does"--about you.

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).

a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

Everyone marveled--between courses at The Palm--at how out of touch Mittens was.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.

I always keep my repertorial hat on.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety.

Washington read": the act of telling someone, "I didn't read your book but did praise it on TV.")