317 Quotes by Molly Ivins

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley’s daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn’t it?

That’s the trouble with this country, people keep messin’ up each other’s movies.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as ‘enemies,’ it’s time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

The first rule of holes: When you’re in one stop digging.

I know vegetarians don’t like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that’s good for nothing but grazing.