Molly Ivins Quotes

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Very ugly things were said about me.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

I've had to deal with terrible things being said about me.

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

As you have seen, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.