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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
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Monterey
California
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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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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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Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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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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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
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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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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 Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.
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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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During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!
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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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