317 Quotes by Molly Ivins

Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

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.

It’s like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you’re wrong.

We’ve had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren’t even damp yet.

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don’t like.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what’s going on. You can’t find it in the papers.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.

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