The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens? — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — 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 Image
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 Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
