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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.
Molly Ivins
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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
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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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Of course, it has never paid much.
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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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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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