Susteren Greta Quotes & Sayings

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? — Greta Van Susteren

I've been a workaholic since I was 18. — Greta Van Susteren

I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for that. All I want people to say is that I do my best. I do work. I never let anything slipshod get past me. I think I can tell a good story and I can create characters that ring true. — W. Somerset Maugham

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true. — James Gray

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories. — Moby

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants. — Greta Van Susteren

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections. — Greta Van Susteren

I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment. — Joe Queenan

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. — Greta Van Susteren

And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. "Don't do that," I say. "What? Come up or stay under?" he says. "Either. Neither. Whatever — Suzanne Collins

On London Tonight, on television right now, a reporter is standing in front of a building that is under construction. It's windy, and the wind has pressed the fabric of his slacks against his body, outlining his penis. You can see everything - the length and width and the fact that he's uncut and hangs to the right. But I bet none of the viewers even noticed. In America, there would be letters to the station. There would be a lawsuit because a child was watching. The headlines would dub the reporter "Anchor of Shame" and he'd be fired. When our own Greta Van Susteren got her eyes done, it was front-page news for a week. So you can be sure, if Anderson Cooper's penis were to be visible in outline beneath his trousers, he'd be on the cover of People, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. We are obsessed with sex in an unnatural way. — Augusten Burroughs

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat. — Greta Van Susteren

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts. — Greta Van Susteren

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word. — Greta Van Susteren

Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread. — Seth

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases. — David Oakes

Transformation of the intangible impulse, of desire, into the tangible reality, of money, calls for the use of a plan, or plans. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly, with the synthetic faculty. Read — Napoleon Hill

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill? — John Dryden

Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith. — Greta Van Susteren

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? — Greta Van Susteren

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs. — Greta Van Susteren

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it. — Greta Van Susteren

President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel? — Greta Van Susteren

I really enjoy what I'm doing. — Greta Van Susteren

I like really stupid comedies. — Greta Van Susteren

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. — Ernest Istook

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them. — Greta Van Susteren

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting. — Greta Van Susteren

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do. — Greta Van Susteren

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters. — Greta Van Susteren