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" Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically. "

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" 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

Reason

Ability

Skills

" Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign. "

" I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas. "

Molly Ivins

Governor

Intensely

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time. "

" 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. "

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

" I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. "

" Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced. "

Molly Ivins

Who

Imagine

" Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed. "

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

" Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.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

" Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Second

Away

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

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

Molly Ivins

Always

Trying

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

" When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically. "

" Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

Molly Ivins

Spent

Among

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

Molly Ivins

Unlike

Guns

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

" Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it. "