Figuring out DC

March 31, 2009
"A Nobel scientist is more likely to figure out Washington than a career politician is to figure out how to deal with carbon sequestration."

-- Dan Leistikow, the Energy Department's director of public affairs, on Steven Chu's adjustment to his new job as energy secretary, quoted in the New York Times.

[Hat tip to Ken Bearman]

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