Molly Ivins Quotes

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that we are governed by a fundamentally different Constitution from that of the framers.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

George W. Bush has merged church and state while trying to keep it apart in Iraq.

For most Americans nepotism is first and last a class issue—a way for the rich to warehouse their unemployable offspring while keeping the lower classes in their place. In fact however systematic nepotism has been practiced more or less continuously by both the upper and the lower classes without ambivalence or apology. It was the middle class that pushed the merit principle, rising as it did through the institutions of the market and the state.

The common people are more disposed to trust one of their own class [in political office] than those who may efect to be superior.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

Keep a woman's right to choose unless George W. Bush is free to baby-sit.

The man who first called us the Common People was nearly right.

George W. Bush stole the 2000 election from Al Gore.

All laws have unintended consequences.

Vice President Cheney really knew how to bring out the cowboy in George W, Bush.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We need never have white slaves in the South, because we have black ones. Our citizens, like those of Rome and Athens, are a privileged class. We should train and educate them to deserve the privileges and to perform the duties which society confers on them. Instead, by a low demagoguism depressing their self-respect by discourses on the equality of man, we had better excite their pride by reminding them that they do not fulfill the menial offices which white men do in other countries.

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

If the Supreme Court hadn’t tampered with the election, Al Gore would now be President, George W. Bush would be back in Texas, and John Ashcroft would be back to reading Southern Magazine

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

I've known Don since he came to Washington. When he first came to work for George W. Bush, he was a different Don Rumsfeld. He was jolly, full of life, and ready to go to war, but only if we could win.

The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.