317 Quotes by Molly Ivins

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

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.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

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.

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.