There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful…

— Allan Sloan

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit,…

— Dave Barry

Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times…

— Bernard Levin

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know…

— William Raspberry

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is…

— Franklin P. Adams

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer…

— Laurie Notaro

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes,…

— Craig Kielburger

My favourite writers are columnists.

— John Cooper Clarke

Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets…

— Rachel Maddow

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional and social…

— John Rawlings Rees

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

— Tavis Smiley

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind…

— George Matthew Adams

Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get…

— Cheryl Strayed

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

— Joseph Sobran