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" 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. "

Molly Ivins

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Democracy

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" Losing a part of a breast or all of one or both has, obviously, serious psychological consequences. "

" One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don't, you shut it down. It works to our benefit - it always has. "

" In all my fantasies, I always assumed I would get married and have six children along the way with the greatest of ease. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect. "

" Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother? "

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

" 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. "

" There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work. "

" And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. "

" All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening. "

" I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. "

" One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight. "

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

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

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

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

" Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state. "

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

" The reason I take Rush Limbaugh seriously is not because he's offensive or right-wing, but because he is one of the few people addressing a large group of disaffected people in this country. And despite his frequent denials, Limbaugh does indeed have a somewhat cult-like effect on his ditto heads. "

" I only aim at the powerful. "

" Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. "

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

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