Top 15 Molly Ivins Quotes



I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

 

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay atten

 

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.

 

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.

 

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

 

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

 

One seldom expects the country’s president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter’s assessment of Elvis Presley’s appeal – ‘energy, rebelliousness and good humor’ – is remarkably close to the mark.

 

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

 

Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

 

I’ve always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

 

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

 

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win.

 

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

 

So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

 

 

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