Sally Quinn Quotes

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

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.

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.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

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.

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.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.

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.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

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.

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.

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.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.

I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences.

The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

... 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.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

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.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

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.

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.

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.