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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons. (Sally Quinn)
The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. View quote
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. View quote
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I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack. View quote
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event. View quote
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper. View quote
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them. View quote
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. View quote
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment. View quote
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight. View quote
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It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. (Sally Quinn)
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats. View quote
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience. View quote
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. View quote
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. View quote
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. View quote
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Sally Quinn

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Photo: Financial Times photos, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Journalist
Born: July 1, 1941
Quotes count: 16