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The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

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Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

"'Evil Cowards' Threaten Freedom" by Molly Ivins, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 1995.

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If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

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Injustice, Bother, Ifs

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In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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Texas, Expectations, Office

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Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Heart, Giving, Salary

"Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

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Real, Stupid, Political

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It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

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People, Killing, Convince

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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

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Political, Digging, Politics

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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

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Sorry, Reason, Has Beens

"The Fun’s in the Fight" by Molly Ivins, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.

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Waiting, Age, Triumph

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Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

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Perseverance, Honesty, Nice

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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

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Country, Years, Economics

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Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

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Taken, Writing, Years

Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

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People, Connections, States

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The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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Confusion, Democracy, Beloved

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Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

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Dog, Horse, Men

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On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.

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Men, Wind, Abuse

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Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.

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Bombs, World, Problem

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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

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Texas, Political, Politics

Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.43, Vintage

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

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Sound, Sides, Arguing

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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

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Hurt, Air, Ankles

Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.303, Random House

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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

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Respect, Needs, Too Much

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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

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Government, Political, Politics

"Jon Carroll" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2007.

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Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

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Thinking, Land, Water

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Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

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Oasis, Texas, Camels

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Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

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Thinking, Government

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Born: August 30, 1944
Died: January 31, 2007
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