Better Quote by Molly Ivins

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

— Molly Ivins

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,

— Molly Ivins

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

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

— Molly Ivins

I only aim at the powerful.

— Molly Ivins

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

It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

— Molly Ivins

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

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

— Molly Ivins

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

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