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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
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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Stupid
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Real
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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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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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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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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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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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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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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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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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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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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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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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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