Maureen Dowd : (4)

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

" 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. " - Maureen Dowd

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

" Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. " - Maureen Dowd