Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Washington's a dangerous place.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced.... You have to have been somebody to fall.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

I think all politicians lie.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Politics ruins the character.

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

[Describing member of Congress:] 80 percent were hypocrites. 80 percent, liars. 80 percent, serious sinners.... There is always boozing and floozing.

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

Here in Washington ruining people is considered sport

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.