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

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
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Monterey
California
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the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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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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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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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
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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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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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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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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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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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Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
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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.
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing Go?
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