Meg Greenfield Quotes

#1. In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

Meg Greenfield

#2. Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield

#3. There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Meg Greenfield

#4. Bring me the head of Elton John ... which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

Steven Morrissey

#5. Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

Meg Greenfield

#6. Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Meg Greenfield

#7. 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

#8. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

Meg Greenfield

#9. Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

Meg Greenfield

#10. It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

Thomas Fuller

#11. Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Meg Greenfield

#12. My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

Sydney Schanberg

#13. 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

#14. The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page ... Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

Jerry West

#15. In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Meg Greenfield

#16. I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!

Kim Harrison

#17. History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.

Josh Fox

#18. The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

Gregor Strasser

#19. You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

Will Ferrell

#21. Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

Rick Warren

#22. If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

Meg Greenfield

#23. Maybe I'm not meant to change the
world.
Or change the lives of these two
girls.
Maybe they're meant to change mine.

Madelyn Neal

#24. China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Sellapan Ramanathan