Quotes by Molly Ivins

I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated.

I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact.

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.