Molly Ivins Quotes

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• I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny, Humorous, Political

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• When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

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  Country, Winning, Talking

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

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• I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

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  Gun, People, Bangs

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• I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

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  Thinking, Government, Texas

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• It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

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  People, Killing, Convince

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• Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

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  Talking, Ideas, People

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.10, Vintage

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• I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

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  Sex, Growing Up, Love You

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• If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

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  Inspiration, Water, Slips

  Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.212, Random House

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• So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

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  Laughter, Fun, Freedom

  "The Fun’s in the Fight". www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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• On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

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  Order, Taxes, Offshore

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• Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

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  Party, Corporations, Republican

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• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

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  Women, Laughing, Groups

  Molly Ivins (1991). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, Random House Incorporated

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• What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

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  Citizens, Twits, Egocentric

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• 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.

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  Party, Two, Differences

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• He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

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  Sarcastic, Eye, Keyholes

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• It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?

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  Running, Government, Fishing

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• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

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  Gun, America, Get Better

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• Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

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  Teaching, School, Politician

  Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose (2002). “Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush”, p.131, Vintage

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• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

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  Real, Stupid, Political

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• I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

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  Lying, Believe, Race

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.14, Vintage

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• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

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  Country, Struggle, America

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.112, Vintage

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• If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

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  Injustice, Bother, Ifs

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

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  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

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  Gun, Order, Knives

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

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  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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