If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
topic: Politician, Conniving, Ifs

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
source: James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430
topic: Men, Matter, South Carolina, Carolina, Common Knowledge
source: Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”
topic: Team, Reality, Ostriches, Sticking Out, Conniving
topic: Government, People, Taoism, Conniving
source: John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion, Work Love, Conniving
source: Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press
topic: Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way, Conniving, Convicts
source: Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf
source: Source: www.avclub.com
source: Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.154, Knopf Books for Young Readers
topic: Impossible Situations, Ideas, Way, Mysterious Ways, Conniving
source: Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.124, Vintage Canada
topic: Men, Self, Betrayed, Conniving, Wonderful Man