If a politician murders his ...

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.
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 Meg Greenfield

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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.
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 Meg Greenfield
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
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