Maureen Dowd Quotes

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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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  • Reading

• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  

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  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Democracy

• If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

  

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  • Wisdom
  • Wit
  • Sophisticated

• 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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  • People
  • Up
  • Style

• 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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  • Game

• 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.'

  

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  • Character
  • America
  • Famous

• 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 endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.

  

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  • People
  • World
  • Money

• IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

  

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  • Trying
  • Republican
  • Historian

• The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Live

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

  

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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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• 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 jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

  

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  • Party

• The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management.

  

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  • House
  • Reality
  • Light

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

  

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• 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.'

  

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  • God
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Clever
  • Politician

• It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

  

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  • Women
  • House

• The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

  

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  • Guilty
  • Sassy

• 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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  • Happy
  • Rumors

• 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.

  

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  • Help

• One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

  

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  • Nature

• And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

  

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  • Work
  • God
  • Money

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

  

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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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