“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.”

Not shooting the messenger, makes you smile 'because', of the accuracy.

Right on.

"Drain the swamp!" ?

No! Empty the septic tank.

Mr. Moynahan was a product of an earlier, occasionally reasonably rightly
attached to reality generation of not unfailingly steeped in Statist dogma Democrats, without question.

I wonder what he was referring to... the rarity of his own competence or his fellows? A politician always speaks out of both sides of his/her mouth -- this is one of those statements that says nothing but reinforces the speaker's reputation for being wise...