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 o…

- Meg Greenfield

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

- Meg Greenfield

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

- Meg Greenfield

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, bu…

- 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 cour…

- Meg Greenfield

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

- Meg Greenfield

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

- Meg Greenfield

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

- Meg Greenfield

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathin…

- Meg Greenfield