Quotes from Molly Ivins

I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

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

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

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.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.