Gail Collins Quotes
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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.
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.
Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.
First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.
When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
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.
How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker
