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Meg Greenfield Quotes
Page 1 of 1Meg Greenfield
December 27, 1930 - May 13, 1999
Nationality: American
Category: Editor
Subcategory: American Editor
|  In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. | | Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. | | Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. | | 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. | | 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. |
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