Gail Collins Quotes - Page 2

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• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

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  Years, California, Tuition

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

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  Writing, People, Narrative

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• The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

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  Kids, Responsibility, Keys

  "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Divorce, Vacation, News

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• In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

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  Dream, Kids, College

  "Having None of Having It All". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

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  Wall, Immigration, Agents

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

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  Rejection, Campaigns, Faults

  "Political Introspection". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

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  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• 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.

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  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.

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  Forgiving, Term, Prepared

  "a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her" by Gail Collins, www.nytimes.com. December 4, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Nsa, Uprising, Special

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

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  Men, Iron, Vote

  "History Lessons". Interview with Linda Greenhouse, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

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  Texas, Southern, Population

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Party, Government, Office

  "Republicans Ask Themselves What Went Wrong". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 20, 2013.

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• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

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  Running, White, House

  "No Longer Debatable — Campaigns Matter". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. October 3, 2012.

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• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

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  Running, Home, Careers

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

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  Impact, Ideas, Two

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• This is America, and we don't restrict our battles over people's sex lives to 11 months a year

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  Sex, Years, America

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• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

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  Husband, Nice, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Party, Fate, Hats

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• [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

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  Attitude, Top Down, Rose

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• 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.

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  Silly, Stuff, Sometimes

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• Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

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  Moving, Thinking, Law

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a right. It's a kind of loan.

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  Thinking, Office, Done

  "War and Peeps". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 14, 2012.

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• 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.”

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  Light, People, Wife

  "Journalist Gail Collins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 4, 2012.

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