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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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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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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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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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I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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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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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
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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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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
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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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I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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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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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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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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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
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