Wisdom of the day (from a San Francisco liberal who should know a thing or two about pâté and unquestionably understands how things work in Washington):

“I’m here to help the children when it’s easy and when it’s hard. Some of you are here to make a beautiful pâté but we’re making sausage most of the time.”

By the way, regarding that political folklore often attributed to Otto von Bismarck – “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made” – apparently (at least according to Quote Investigator) he didn’t say this (or anything resembling this when rendered into English from German).

(Image from wikipedia.)