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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Molly Ivins

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" 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. "

" 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

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" If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely. "

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

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

" Laura Bush, it seems, is used to cast a softer light on her husband, who then proceeds to reverse whatever she's just promised. "

" I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry. "

" 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. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

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

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

" New York is just as provincial as anyone else. "

" The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes misunderstandings between bloggers and the MSM are the result of simple ignorance. "

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

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

" 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. "