I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. — Molly Ivins Copy Share
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some… — Molly Ivins Copy Share
