It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. — Maureen Dowd Actually Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history. — Maureen Dowd Firsts Copy Share Image
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. — Maureen Dowd Acceptance Copy Share Image
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other. — Maureen Dowd Betray Copy Share Image
Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people. — Maureen Dowd Connecting Copy Share Image
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd American exceptionalism Copy Share Image
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. — Maureen Dowd Learning Copy Share Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Form Copy Share Image
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. — Maureen Dowd America Copy Share Image
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize… — Maureen Dowd About Copy Share Image
Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big… — Maureen Dowd Alive Copy Share Image
We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures… — Maureen Dowd Admire Copy Share Image
Now that Hillary [Clinton] has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his… — Maureen Dowd Clinton Copy Share Image
The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on… — Maureen Dowd Bigs Copy Share Image
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet… — Maureen Dowd Away Copy Share Image
“{My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was… — Maureen Dowd Feeling blue Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting… — Maureen Dowd Getting Copy Share Image
Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can… — Maureen Dowd Abandonment Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new… — Maureen Dowd Abortion Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Arrogant Copy Share Image
Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked… — Maureen Dowd Bears Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version… — Maureen Dowd Annoyed Copy Share Image
“McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of… — Maureen Dowd Coverups Copy Share Image
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended… — Maureen Dowd Accepted Copy Share Image
Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that… — Maureen Dowd Absurd Copy Share Image
“Materialism has defeated feminism as well. In a sign of the times, Gloria Steinem was on the picket line when the first… — Maureen Dowd Civil war Copy Share Image
“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)—must put aside… — Maureen Dowd 2010 Copy Share Image
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd Save Copy Share Image
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the… — Maureen Dowd Facts Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Greatness Copy Share Image
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd Blacks Copy Share Image
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd Doom Copy Share Image
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always… — Maureen Dowd Enjoy Copy Share Image
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. — Maureen Dowd Accept Copy Share Image
President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things. — Maureen Dowd Adult Copy Share Image
Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention. — Maureen Dowd Annoying Copy Share Image
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