List of Maureen Dowd Quotes

The Mayans Were Right, As It Turns Out, When They Predicted The World Would End In 2012. It Was Just A Select World: The G.o.p. Universe Of Arrogant, Uptight, Entitled, Bossy, Retrogressive White Guys. [...] Instead Of Smallpox, Plagues, Drought And Conquistadors, The Republican Decline Will Be Traced To A Stubborn Refusal To Adapt To A World Where Poor People And Sick People And Black People And Brown People And Female People And Gay People Count.

Afghanistan Is More Than The 'graveyard Of Empires.' It's The Mother Of Vicious Circles.

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 Deserve. Settling Becomes A Habit And A Way Of Life, But It Doesn't Have To Be. According To Maureen Dowd, "the Minute You Settle For Less Than You Deserve, You Get Even Less Than You Settled For

My Eating Habits Were So Bad For Many Years That I Didn't Actually Know The Intricacies Of Making A Salad.

I Think Hillary Clinton's A Very Clever Politician But She Would Be Too Easy To Stereotype The Way John Kerry Was.

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.

As Blue Chips Turn Into Penny Stocks, Wall Street Seems Less Like A Symbol Of America's Macho Capitalism And More Like That Famous Jane Austen Character Mrs. Bennet, A Flibbertigibbet Always Anxious About Getting Richer And Her 'poor Nerves.'

[on Journalists:] We Are A Noisy, Imperfect Lot, Struggling To Scribble What Has Been Called The First Draft Of History.

I Feel Like I Owe It To The Readers To Try To Pull Back The Veil And Give Them The Honest Version Of What's Going On. But It's Not More Fun. If Obama, As He Does Sometimes Already, Gets A Little Snippy With Me About Something I've Written, You're Thinking, 'oh God, The President Of The United States Is Already Annoyed With Me.'

Now That Hillary [clinton] Has Won Pennsylvania, It Will Take A Village To Help Obama Escape From The Suffocating Embrace Of His Rival. Certainly Howard Dean Will Be Of No Use Steering Her To The Exit. It’s Like Micronesia Telling Russia To Denuke.

Tweetin' Ain't Cheatin'.

For Two Centuries, The South Has Feared A Takeover By Blacks Or The Feds. In Obama, They Have Both.