All Maureen Dowd Quotes
- Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts… Bears
- Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information… Cocktail
- F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him. Achieved
- I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men. Even Understand
- Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military. Civilians
- Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you… Accept
- As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight. Another Woman
- It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. Actually Write
- Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. Alternate
- Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. Accept
- If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people… American
- We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a… Advancement
- For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. Blacks
- Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans. American
- Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for. Obama
- He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance, Harper's irony, Hud's… Ben