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 Copy Share Image
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's… — Maureen Dowd 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 Copy Share Image
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not… — Maureen Dowd Bells 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 Copy Share Image
Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept… — Maureen Dowd 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 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 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
The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is?… — Maureen Dowd 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
“Women can stand on the Empire State Building and scream to the heavens that they are equal to men and liberated, but… — Maureen Dowd 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 Copy Share Image
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