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" From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingrich was the kind of person who read a book or two on something and would then be quite afire as to how this was going to fit into some shining future. "

Molly Ivins

Book

Colonies

Two

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" People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact. "

" The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population. "

" 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. "

" The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us. "

" 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. "

" Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. "

" Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists. "

" A teenage foot that never tapped to 'Heartbreak Hotel' in the '50s probably belonged to a hopeless grind. "

" 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. "

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

" People asked me during the Iraq war if I was afraid to speak out. I said no. "

" 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

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Will

" I have always been a left-winger and an outsider. I loved being that. I was perfectly cheerful with that role. Then suddenly, you're one of the talking heads on 'Nightline,' and you think you must have sold out. "

" The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands. "

" 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. "

" Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all. "

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

" There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman. "

" Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go. "

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

" In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. "

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

" 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. "

" I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay. "

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

" Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. "

" I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive. "

" Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado. "