110 Quotes by Maureen Dowd

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

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

If you're famous enough, the rules don't apply.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

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

The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that 'demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters' [...] It would have been better to put this language in the platform: 'A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.'