Quote

Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

Molly Ivins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Party
Getting
Screwed
Bought
Corporations
Large
Americans
Republican

More quotes by Molly Ivins

Image
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?
Molly Ivins
Image
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
Molly Ivins
Image
The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.
Molly Ivins
Image
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Molly Ivins
Image
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
Molly Ivins
Image
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.
Molly Ivins
Image
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
Molly Ivins
Image
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
Molly Ivins
Image
Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
Molly Ivins
Image
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.
Molly Ivins
Image
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.
Molly Ivins
Image
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.
Molly Ivins
Image
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.
Molly Ivins
Image
Of course, it has never paid much.
Molly Ivins
Image
Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
Molly Ivins
Image
This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency
Molly Ivins
Image
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
Molly Ivins
Image
I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
Molly Ivins
Image
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
Molly Ivins
Image
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
Molly Ivins