Maureen Dowd Quotes
Reading Shakespeare we see that power can be poisonous. In the case of Bush and Cheney testosterone can be poisonous.
Maureen Dowd, Political Columnist, Interview, PBS The Tavis Smiley Show, September 28, 2006
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This quotation has much more meaning that similar statements of dozens of other people who claimed Bush should be impeached. The reason is that Fine was a strong conservative wanting to impeach a conservative President and he was the person who drafted the articles of impeachment against President William Clinton which passed the House but Clinton was acquitted by the Senate. So Fine was generally seen as a partisan for Republican Conservatives like Bush and a man who acted strongly against Clinton, and yet he observed in this quotation that Bush’s crimes were more serious. See {583797} for a concurring view on impeachment of Bush.
When she wrote her letter to the editor the Veterans administration sized her computer and accused her of sedition which is not a crime under American law. After complaints by the American Civil Liberties Union, the VA then did not file charges but had intimidated her.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Perhaps the most famous quotation in all of Political Science is this one. What is fascinating is that 74 years earlier, Shelly, the most famous of the English Poets expressed the same idea in one of his great poems. See {627920}. The last sentence of this quote is often excluded.
It was not published and distributed widely until 1774. For related quotes on the King/Parliament issue, see {639145}, {639144}, {639142}, {639141}, {639140}, & {639137}
Maureen Brigid Dowd is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
