Meg Greenfield quotes

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. (Meg Greenfield)
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. View quote
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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. View quote
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In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. View quote
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Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. View quote
Meg Greenfield

Meg Greenfield

Occupation: American Editor
Born: December 27, 1930
Died: May 13, 1999
Quotes count: 5