Meg Greenfield

“Everybody is looking for a scapegoat.”

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.”

“Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds.”

“Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse.”

“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of stock price, of financial survival.”

“The only protection against foolishness, distortion and plain bunk is the final authority of people's own minds.”

“There are certain people who will always seek to limit our freedom... It is a recurring phenomenon, and it is a recurring charge on all of us to fight it.”

“We love to be victimized.”

“The beginning of wisdom, as the philosopher said, is the definition of terms.”

“Washington is a place where people have seen too many summits and know too well that the road from the summit to the plain is downhill.”

“It is a recurring phenomenon, and it is a recurring charge on all of us to fight it.”