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Meg Greenfield Quotes

Type:
Editor Quotes
Category:
American Editor Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 27, 1930
Date of Death:
May 13, 1999
Nationality:
American
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Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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.
Meg Greenfield

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
Meg Greenfield

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Meg Greenfield

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


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