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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
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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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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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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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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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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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This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
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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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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?
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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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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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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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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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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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One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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