You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

- Mary Mcgrory

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get…

- Mary Mcgrory

I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next ye…

- Mary Mcgrory

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

- Mary Mcgrory

If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.

- Mary Mcgrory

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

- Mary Mcgrory

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is somethin…

- Mary Mcgrory

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgivin…

- Mary Mcgrory

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old.

- Mary Mcgrory