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

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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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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My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions? I asked her. That's why we take siestas, she replied.
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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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The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
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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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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
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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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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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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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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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