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Molly Ivins Quotes

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn’t admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn’t just get a head start by being his father’s son – it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

– Molly Ivins

Some days, I’d feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office – at least he doesn’t lie about the weather.

– Molly Ivins

One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn’t become a better person.

– Molly Ivins

There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.

– Molly Ivins

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it’s tempting.

– Molly Ivins

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

– Molly Ivins

And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.

– Molly Ivins

I wouldn’t say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It’s just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills.

– Molly Ivins

I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

– Molly Ivins

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

– Molly Ivins

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush’s social policy – from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage – women’s issues are one of the bones they’ve decided they can throw to the Christian right.

– Molly Ivins

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

– Molly Ivins

Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

– Molly Ivins

You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.

– Molly Ivins

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.

– Molly Ivins

In all my fantasies, I always assumed I would get married and have six children along the way with the greatest of ease.

– Molly Ivins

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn’t cure cancer.

– Molly Ivins

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

– Molly Ivins

I’ve thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

– Molly Ivins

There’s been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn’t work.

– Molly Ivins

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

– Molly Ivins

You look at the large problems that we face – that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose – all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

– Molly Ivins

I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

– Molly Ivins

I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

– Molly Ivins

Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

– Molly Ivins

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there’s a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

– Molly Ivins

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

– Molly Ivins

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

– Molly Ivins

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

– Molly Ivins

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

– Molly Ivins

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