With the Majority Leadership, there came to Senator Munson not only a much more direct responsibility for running the Senate, but in a curious sense which he never expressed to anyone except May, because it would have sounded precious and pretentious, an almost fatherly sense of responsibility for the country.

– Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

Of course, that was the thing about Washington, really; you didn’t have to be born to anything, you could just buy your way in.

– Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

It is a city of temporaries, a city of just-arriveds and only-visitings, built on the shifting sands of politics, filled with people passing through.

– Advise and Consent by Allen Drury