Quotes by Molly Ivins

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.

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 attention.

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.

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.

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

And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.

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