Meg Greenfield Quotes

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

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

- 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

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

- Meg Greenfield

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

- Meg Greenfield