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Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.

During the 1970s and the early 1980s, Dowd worked for Time magazine and the Washington Star, where she covered news and sports and wrote feature articles. Dowd joined The New York Times in 1983 as a Metropolitan Reporter, and became an op-ed writer for the newspaper in 1995. In 1999, Dowd was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. January 1952
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Famous Maureen Dowd Quotes

“Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.”

Maureen Dowd

“A month after Powell's speech, New York Times columnist Maureen Down remarked that it was no wonder Americans were confused; the United states was about to go to war against a country that did not attack it on September 11, as did al-Queda; that did not intercept its planes, as did North Korea; that did not finance al-Queda, as did Saudi Arabia; that was not home to Osama bin Laden's lieutenants, as was Pakistan; and was not a host body for terrorists, as were Iran and Syria.”

Maureen Dowd

From [Halper, Stefan, Clarke, Johnathan, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 0-521-83834-7 hardback, 213]

“These are not grounds for impeachment. These are grounds for divorce.”

Maureen Dowd

On the Lewinsky affair, New York Times column (September 14, 1998)

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

Maureen Dowd

New York Times column (September 20, 2008)

“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.”

Maureen Dowd

New York Times column (April 23, 2008)

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