Molly Ivins Quotes

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Molly Ivins

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 30, 1944

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

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I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

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One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

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I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

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I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

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Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.

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In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

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If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

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Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

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Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of immigrants going back to the days of the Founders, when Ben Franklin thought we were going to be overrun by Germans. But Business likes illegal workers.

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As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.

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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

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I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

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The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

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It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

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All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

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