Jack Abramoff Quotes

'Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

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

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

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

I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public office in Washington. Here ruining people is considered a sport … Politics is a blood sport.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

Here in Washington ruining people is considered sport

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

The real scandal in Washington is not what is against the law. It is what is not against the law.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

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

A fuel of discontent and anxiety is probably pretty central to the fuel at 'Scandal!'

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

'Scandal' is great because it's intriguing and sexy, and it has a lot of play with secondary characters in situations, lots of drama.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.