Maureen Dowd
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"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/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 Lewinsky scandal/Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Bill Clinton/Clinton administration.

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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.

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

It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

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.

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

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

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

United States of Shame.

OK, I'll predict that the rapture's coming and you and I, Chris [Matthews], are going up, and all these hypocritical conservatives who tell people not to do stuff but then they get caught doing are not.

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.