317 Quotes by Molly Ivins

If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner.

I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills.

I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.

Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.

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

One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.