The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them… — 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
