Sally Quinn Quotations

When I met Little Edie, she was clearly nuts, but there were flashes of charm and style. When I agreed to buy the house, I said that I would take it on the condition that either she leave it broom-clean - which was laughable - or that she leave it all ... and she chose to leave everything.

She was so much fun. She had a great sense of humor,

She, I'm sure, is partially responsible for him being re-elected, and I think that she knows that. And I think that has given her an enormous amount of confidence.

We've been together 32 years and married for 27.

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

I suspect she and the chef did not see eye-to-eye, and that is the kind of thing that happens. So much of this is chemistry and personality. So I am sure they will get another chef and I am sure the food will be fine.

People always have thought that the White House was the center of Washington, but it was Kay's house, ... It seems really unthinkable that she's not there anymore, that that big house on the hill will be empty.

There was a feeling all along here that they (Charles and Camilla) were in love with each other and they should get married.

They had not been viewed as demigods in the newsroom. Only after the book, and really after the movie, did it become clear that their celebrity was a little over the top.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

But when we started Style, it was so experimental and so over the top. We couldn't do a lot of the stuff that we used to do then now.

I don't think anybody's going to be dancing on tables,

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

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 important is not what you believe but how you behave.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

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.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

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.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

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

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

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.

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

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