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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 h...

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 terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he h...

Tags: politics, mother, years, response

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

Meg Greenfield

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

Tags: self, control

About Author
Mary Ellen Greenfield (December 27, 1930 – May 13, 1999), known as Meg Greenfield, was an American editorial writer who worked for the Washington Post and Newsweek. She was also a Washington, D.C., insider, known for her wit. Greenfield won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing.
A book she authored was published posthumously.

Since when do grown men and women who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership " require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permiss...

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 ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permiss...

Tags: success