Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right.

— 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.

— Molly Ivins

From orphanages to space colonies, it was all shallow but endearingly enthusiastic futurism. Gingrich was the kind of person who read a book or two on something and would then be quite afire as to how this was going to fit into some shining future.

— Molly Ivins

'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

— Molly Ivins

Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.

— Molly Ivins

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

— Molly Ivins

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.

— Molly Ivins

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

— Molly Ivins

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

— Molly Ivins

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

— Molly Ivins