Molly Ivins – “Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the sam…”
Molly Ivins best Fear Quotes – “Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
Molly Ivins best Fear Quotes – “Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
Molly Ivins best Fear Quotes – “Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”
Molly Ivins best Experience Quotes – “One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don’t have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don’t, you shut it down. It works to our benefit – it always has.”
Molly Ivins best Experience Quotes – “I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn’t actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.”
Molly Ivins best Chance Quotes – “When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, ‘Gosh, well, it’s been a good run.’ What I didn’t realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.”
Molly Ivins best Car Quotes – “Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.”
Molly Ivins best Attitude Quotes – “The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn’t cure cancer.”
Molly Ivins best Attitude Quotes – “In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn’t get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow – and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.”
Molly Ivins best Alone Quotes – “I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there’s a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.”