Pack Beauregard "Beau" Willimon (born October 26, 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is known as the showrunner and writer of House of Cards. Read full biography of Beau Willimon →
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you... →
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an... →
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to... →
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of... →
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these... →
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly... →
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly... →
Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the... →
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else... →
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to... →
Pack Beauregard "Beau" Willimon (born October 26, 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is known as the showrunner and writer of House of Cards.