Molly Ivins Quotes

• Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don’t much care for.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

• Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Time

• As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.

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  Topics in Money, Politics

• Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Manners

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

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Confusion, Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Order

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

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Evil, Ignorance

• I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

• Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful

• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Country, History

• It’s hard to argue against cynics — they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

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  Tags in Optimism, Cynicism

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

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

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

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Texas

• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor’s] office; it’s mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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  Tags in Texas

• 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 less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Oh, it’s just that your life is at stake.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Texas

• I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

  Molly Ivins

  Tags in Texas

• As a veteran of many an electoral defeat at the polls, may I remind you of the proper Texan attitude toward slaughter at the polls?

  A few years before Billie Carr died this September at age 74, a friend called to ask how she was doing. “Well,” she said, “They just impeached my boy up in Washington, there’s not a Democrat left in statewide office in Texas, the Republicans have taken every judgeship in Harris County, and yesterday I found out I have cancer.”

  Pause.

  “I think I’ll go out and get a pregnancy test because with my luck, it’ll come back positive.”

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Texas

• What you need is sustained outrage…there’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Anger, Challenge, Dissent, Respect

  Tags in Apathy, Authority

Molly Ivins (18)

Birth:	30th August, 1944
Death:	31st January, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist, Commentator

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