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" 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. "

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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

" On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done. "

Molly Ivins

Women

Cards

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

" Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Molly Ivins

Governor

Intensely

" I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

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

Molly Ivins

Elected Officials

Laugh

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

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

" If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner. "

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

" Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn't matter what you say or how you say it. "

" Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure. "

" 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. "

" Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. "

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

" I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person. "

" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

" 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. "

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

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

Molly Ivins

Spent

Among