furrbear | Quotes for the Week

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

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

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

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.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
- All from Molly Ivins, 1944 – 2007