Molly Ivins Quotes - Page 2

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• Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.

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  Thinking, Government, Skills

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.22, 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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• What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

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  People, Connections, States

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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'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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• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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  Texas, Expectations, Office

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

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  Real, Stupid, Political

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

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  Running, Peace, Children

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• Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

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  Sorry, Reason, Has Beens

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

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• We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

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  Country, Years, Economics

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• Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

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  Texas, Political, Politics

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.43, Vintage

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• Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

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  Political, Democracy, Cash

  "Molly Ivins, In Memoriam" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. February 1, 2007.

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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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• I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

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  Texas, Adults, States

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• The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

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  Political, Digging, Politics

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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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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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  Confusion, Democracy, Beloved

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• Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

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  Dog, Horse, Men

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• On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.

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  Men, Wind, Abuse

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• Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.

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  Waiting, Age, Triumph

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• Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

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  Perseverance, Honesty, Nice

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• Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.

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  Depressing, Debt, Statistics

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• It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

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  Sound, Sides, Arguing

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• I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

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  Hurt, Air, Ankles

  Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.303, Random House

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• Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

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  Thinking, Government

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