Quotes by Maureen Dowd

About Maureen Dowd:

Maureen Bridgid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author. During the 1970s and the early 1980s, she worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news as well as sports and wrote feature articles. Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter and eventually became an Op-Ed writer for the newspaper in 1995. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration.
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Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

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Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.

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As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

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The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

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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 and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated t...

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Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

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My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

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Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

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Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

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Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

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When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.

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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 galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar char...

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Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to regiment his emotions. But now that can come across as imperviousness and inflexibility. He wants to run the agenda; he doesn't want the agenda to run hi...

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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.

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Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

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I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

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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 a flip-flopper.

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For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

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Author Bio

  • NameMaureen Dowd
  • Descriptioncolumnist for The New York Times
  • BornJanuary 14, 1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionColumnist; Journalist