Molly Ivins Quotes

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

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up...

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take ...

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to ...

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care f...

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of...

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let yo...

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

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

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardic...

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

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt th...

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties esta...

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a f...

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Car...

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

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always wi...

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord,...

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be mad...

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

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingric...

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common...

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they ar...