Gail Collins quotes and sayings
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.
Gail Collins quotes
- I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
- During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
- In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
- My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
- This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
- Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
- As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
- The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
- At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
- The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?