Meg Greenfield Quotes

United States, Writer
December 27, 1930 – May, 13, 1999.

Mary Ellen Greenfield (December 27, 1930 – May 13, 1999), known as Meg Greenfield, was a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer, and a Washington, D.C. insider, known for her wit.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Meg Greenfield
- Sleep
- Listening

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

Meg Greenfield
- Democracy
- Practice
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Meg Greenfield
- Mother
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Meg Greenfield
- Fall
- Honor