Molly Ivins

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

— Molly Ivins

I only aim at the powerful.

— Molly Ivins

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

— Molly Ivins

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

— Molly Ivins

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

— Molly Ivins

Of course, it has never paid much.

— Molly Ivins

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

— Molly Ivins

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

— Molly Ivins

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

— Molly Ivins

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

— Molly Ivins

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

— Molly Ivins

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

— Molly Ivins

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

— Molly Ivins

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

— Molly Ivins

Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks…

— Molly Ivins

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they…

— Molly Ivins

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the…

— Molly Ivins

The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them…

— Molly Ivins

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will…

— Molly Ivins

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with…

— Molly Ivins

The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for…

— Molly Ivins

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and…

— Molly Ivins

The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not…

— Molly Ivins

The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have…

— Molly Ivins

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal…

— Molly Ivins

The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we…

— Molly Ivins

I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like…

— Molly Ivins

On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need…

— Molly Ivins

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for…

— Molly Ivins

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is…

— Molly Ivins

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs…

— Molly Ivins

We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery…

— Molly Ivins

Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had…

— Molly Ivins

The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist…

— Molly Ivins

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

— Molly Ivins

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

— Molly Ivins

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

— Molly Ivins

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,

— Molly Ivins