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" 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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" The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there. "

Molly Ivins

You

Reading

Journalism

" Sometimes misunderstandings between bloggers and the MSM are the result of simple ignorance. "

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

" I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon. "

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

" Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat. "

" It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell. "

Molly Ivins

Stories

Will

" I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens? "

" There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started. "

" New York is just as provincial as anyone else. "

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

" The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination. "

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

" I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind. "

" One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark. "

" 'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators. "

" 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. "

" When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. "

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

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

" One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight. "

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

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

" 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. "

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

" How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them? "

Molly Ivins

Always

Trying

" Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she's just promised. "

" I'm happy to be called a liberal. "

Molly Ivins

Happy

Liberal

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

Molly Ivins

Unlike

Guns

" We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them. "

Molly Ivins

Elected Officials

Laugh