Sally Quinn Quotes
I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes.
When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.
When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.
My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.
Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.
I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.
So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.
I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.
The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.
This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
