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. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ...… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share
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
