The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
From Molly Ivins
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists.
It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.
Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.
Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.
The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.
Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.
There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman.
I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
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