I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet. Molly Ivins Read Quote
All my life, I’ve been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I’d get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it’s not happening. Molly Ivins Read Quote
The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn’t stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population. Molly Ivins Read Quote
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn’t admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn’t just get a head start by being his father’s son – it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life. Molly Ivins Read Quote
And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me. Molly Ivins Read Quote
I really do think we’re going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we’re starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it’s all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff – the extent that it’s become one giant infotainment industry. Molly Ivins Read Quote
Even after four years in office, George W. Bush’s record on women doesn’t leap out at you. It’s composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media’s radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact. Molly Ivins Read Quote
I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they’re not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics. Molly Ivins Read Quote
Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure. Molly Ivins Read Quote
Sometimes misunderstandings between bloggers and the MSM are the result of simple ignorance. Molly Ivins Read Quote
