The idea that ‘if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave’ is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise. Gail Collins Read Quote
Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the ‘Phil Gramm for President’ campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse. Gail Collins Read Quote
What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, ‘I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.’ Gail Collins Read Quote
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad. Gail Collins Read Quote
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection. Gail Collins Read Quote
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you’d have an uprising. Gail Collins Read Quote
Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn’t know stuff. She didn’t even finish her term. Gail Collins Read Quote
I’m being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women’s most personal choices. Gail Collins Read Quote
My all-time favorite program in my entire life was ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ Gail Collins Read Quote
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate – or at lease greatly reduce – single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock. Gail Collins Read Quote