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" I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened. "

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" The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs are getting chewed up. "

Molly Ivins

Keep

Fortune

Old

" Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that. "

" 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

" The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there's a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success. "

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

Molly Ivins

Governor

Intensely

" Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. "

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

" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

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

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

Molly Ivins

Unlike

Guns

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

" If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean. "

" It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that. "

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

Molly Ivins

Happy

Liberal

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

" Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel. "

" In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.' "

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

Molly Ivins

Always

Trying

" I only aim at the powerful. "

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

" In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. "