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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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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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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
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I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
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Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.
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I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
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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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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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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
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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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On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
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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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Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
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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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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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