An Address to You. Yes, you.

Hello, interloper.

I'd like to say something to you—something I've said many times.

'Power is like real estate, it's all about location, location, location.

You'll find no power here.
If you had any, you wouldn't be reading this. And if I still did, I wouldn't be writing it.

Me.

They call me ruthless, I call it efficiency. I don't apologize for my methods.

I'm a person that isn't driven by desire so much as by driven by gravity. Systems bend to those who understand them, and I've always understood them.

I don't seek admiration, I seek results. And yet if you look closely, you will see the inevitability I leave behind. Choices I have made, consequences done and opportunities taken.
That is me.

I don't hide from you. That alone should tell something.

My Presidency.

The presidency, of course, it would fall into my hands just as expected.

Garrett Walker was hopelessly naive in the thought that the office would hold itself together with good intentions and politeness.

It does not.

Institutions rot when it is left unattended. I merely stepped in because someone had to.

AmWorks. My flagship project.

Jobs were never the point of it, really, only influence. Influence and the illusion of progress.

Every bit of AmWorks can be deployed, measured and in cases, withdrawn.

Critics believed it was reckless. Really, I'd say it was only inevitable.

Every institution resists being remade, so do every country, they resist being reminded that they are replaceable if it doesn't perform.

AmWorks did halt yes, but the country failed to keep pace with it.

2016.

People love a good election, it makes a good stage and I love to direct.

Will Conway ran on principles, I ran on consequences. He panders to ideals while I bend reality until it becomes comfortable to the masses.

He had charm, yes, but I had inevitability on my side.

Leadership is not about winning popularity, but knowing when the pieces on the board fall to where you want them, arranging them until they do.

Claire Underwood.