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Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

Molly Ivins

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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Confusion
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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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As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.
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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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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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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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no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
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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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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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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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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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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
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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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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.
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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
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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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