Court Quote by Meg Greenfield

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

— Meg Greenfield

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

— Meg Greenfield

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

— Meg Greenfield

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

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

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

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

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

— 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, loathing, fear, respect…

— Meg Greenfield

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

— Meg Greenfield

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