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 Copy Share Image
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one.… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves. — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
