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When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual horsepower and the ability to look at an issue and say something fresh.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

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

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.