Top 258 Quotes & Sayings by Molly Ivins - Page 5

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

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.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

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.

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.

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign government. Bank records, e-mails, library records, even the track of discount cards at grocery stores can be obtained on individuals without establishing any connection to a terrorist before a judge. According to the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda uses sophisticated encryption devices freely available on the Internet that cannot be cracked. So the terrorists are safe from cyber-snooping, but we're not.

It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.

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.

Of course, it has never paid much.

One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

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.

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.