As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road,… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about - city versus country.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“One law prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court, and carefully defined “negro” as anyone who had one nonwhite grandparent.” — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
