- Nov 07, 2020
Gail Collins Quotes
Most Famous Gail Collins Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best gail-collins quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Gail Collins Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Care
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
- Daily
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Copy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
- Health
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
- Better
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
- Equal Rights
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.
- Change
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
- Past
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
- Internet
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
- Matter
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
- Law
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
- Gun
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
- Gun
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.
- Failure
- |
- Nov 07, 2020