Mike Lawson > Quotes

“In order to keep his daughter from going to jail for insider trading, Mahoney had been forced to meet with Castiglia and, for whatever reason, the two men actually liked each other. Maybe that was because there wasn’t that much difference between gangsters and politicians; they just belonged to different gangs.”
― Mike Lawson, House Revenge

“Yes, but don’t you find the endorsements intriguing?” Emma said. “Why would a bunch of big-shot New Yorkers support her? She was just a girl from Queens, had no political connections of her own, and certainly these people would have known who her father was.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“I’m sorry to hear that,” DeMarco said, although he wasn’t sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“Thanks, Neil,” Emma said. “So, what do you want to do next?” she asked DeMarco. “Find out what Stephanie Taliaferro Hernandez has on Quinn.” “And how do you propose to do that?” “I have no idea.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern”
― Mike Lawson, The Inside Ring

“DeMarco told her how he’d gone to Senator Beecham’s chief of staff and how he’d videotaped Tony Benedetto telling all the things that Quinn had done—and then how Tony had betrayed him.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“The way Quinn had spoken to him—acting as if killing Gino DeMarco had never really happened—was one reason why he’d decided to kill the man. Another was Quinn’s insufferable arrogance, bragging about his accomplishments, so confident that with his power and connections, someone like DeMarco wouldn’t stand a chance against him. But the final reason was that DeMarco knew that if he didn’t find the courage to kill Quinn, Quinn would not only get away with what’d he done, but with his record and his abilities, he could very well end up in the Senate or even the White House.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“rarely did anything good come from talking directly to reporters. Their business was entertainment, not journalism: they wanted sound bites, not facts.”
― Mike Lawson, Untouchable

“Tony,” DeMarco said, and Benedetto slowly opened his eyes.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“It’s like Jack Kennedy,” DeMarco said to Emma. “All the rumors about Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger and having ties to the mob and getting rich on insider trading never really hurt Jack. It sounds like the same thing with Stephanie. By the time she jumped onto the political stage, her old man was dead, his money had been laundered clean, she had nothing to do with his past life.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning

“The Monocle restaurant—a well-known watering hole for the denizens of Capitol Hill—was only a few blocks from the Dirksen Building and it was too nice a day to take a cab, so they walked.”
― Mike Lawson, House Reckoning