Molly Ivins Political Quotations

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

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.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

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

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

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

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

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.