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" 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. "

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Always

" 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. "

" I'd worked for the 'Dallas Times Herald' for ten years, and its death was a kick in the gut the like of which I cannot recall ever having experienced. "

Molly Ivins

Dallas

Years

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

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

" You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. "

Molly Ivins

How

Ignore

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life. "

" 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 spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

Molly Ivins

Spent

Among

" '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. "

" We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level. "

" Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. "

" 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. "

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

Molly Ivins

Happy

Liberal

" I only aim at the powerful. "

" 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. "

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

" Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire. "

" The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time. "

" The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" People like to help. They like to be able to do something for you. Let them. "

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