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Top 10 Meg Greenfield Quotes (2025 Update)

Meg Greenfield Quote: “There’s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.”

1. “There’s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.”

2. “The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.”

3. “Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Meg Greenfield Quote: “Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.”

5. “Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.”

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

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.”

7. “In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd – I mean, the math doesn’t work out.”

8. “Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd – I mean, the math doesn’t work out.”

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Meg Greenfield Quote: “Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward ‘the people.’ It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.”

9. “Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward ‘the people.’ It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.”

— Meg Greenfield

Meg Greenfield Quote: “In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.”

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

— Meg Greenfield

Meg Greenfield Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Meg Greenfield Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Meg Greenfield Quote: “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 permissible to grab the secretary’s behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?”

13. “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 permissible to grab the secretary’s behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?”

— Meg Greenfield

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