Molly Ivins Quotes

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

We have this civil war at home between our own version of Shiites and Sunnis called Republicans and Democrats…

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

The Republicans make a pastime of trashing the 1st Amendment while the Democrats pastime is trashing the 2nd Amendment.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

If anything, the Democrats' salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center.

We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

It's abundantly clear the Democrats want to eliminate us.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.