Molly Ivins Quotes

Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.

Modi is a disgrace to the prime minister's post.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

Clinton's a schmuck.

There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

Lincoln and the Government are imbecile and played out.

… a degeneracy of representation in the great council of America .… Many members of it are no doubt men in every respect, fit for the trust, but this cannot be said of it as a body. Folly, caprice a want of foresight, comprehension and dignity, characterize the general tenor of their actions…. Their conduct with respect to the army especially is feeble indecisive and improvident

La Guardia, the petty and the pitiful!

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.

Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.

I'm setting the record straight - Chuck Schumer is nothing but a political animal who symbolizes all that's wrong with American politics.

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed.

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

When I started criticizing Donald Trump when he got more popular on the right, one of the most things that I discovered was how many people were mad at me for not living down to their expectations. There are a lot of pundits on the right who think their job is to be a cheerleader for their team. That is not my job. My job is to tell the truth as I see it, and that is gotten a lot of people angry.

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.

Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if you are consistently wrong, it's even better. You're really one of them if you're really wrong all the time. Look at Jimmy Carter.

There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.