Maureen Dowd Quotes (14 Quotes)

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

His House colleagues still call him Jackie One Note joking that if you ask him how to solve the problem of teenage pregnancy, he'll tell you to cut taxes.

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

Judy told the Times she ... intends to return to the newsroom 'hoping to cover the same thing I've always covered, the threat to country'.

Last week, George W. Bush told New York Times ... I'm smart enough to know what I don't know.

Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt this paper and its trust with readers.

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.

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 disdain.

Aside from his scintilla of candor, Mr. Bush is still not leveling with us. As he said at his press conference on Monday, 'the enemies of freedom' know that 'a democratic Iraq will be a decisive blow to their ambitions because free people will never choose to live in tyranny.' They may choose to live in a theocracy, though. Americans did.

She more than earned her sobriquet, 'Miss Run Amok'.

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

They have been painting the barn red and white . . . . chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests from the spotlights, scraping mildew from costumes and very gingerly, in the manner of city slickers, shooing snakes out of the yard.

President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.