Molly Ivins Quotes

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• He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
• Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
• Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
• Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.
• 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 prove you're wrong.
• 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 someone in order…
• I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it…
• If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
• Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there’s nothing you can do about being born liberal — fish gotta swim and hearts…
• 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 slightly…
• Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,
• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few…
• 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 about…
• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe in individual liberty.…
• Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions…
• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste…
• The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our…

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