317 Quotes by Molly Ivins

Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign.

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

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

I have always been a left-winger and an outsider. I loved being that. I was perfectly cheerful with that role. Then suddenly, you're one of the talking heads on 'Nightline,' and you think you must have sold out.

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

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