Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. — 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
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
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." [ Shrub Flubs… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? — 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… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket… — 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
I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives… — 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
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