My fellow citizens, we live in a great nation. It’s occasional resemblance to a lunatic asylum is purely coincidental and doubtlessly not the intention of the Author Of Us All.

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]

Essay (1992-01), “Being an ‘Arthur’,” Mother Jones magazine, Vol. 17. No. 1 (1992-01/02)
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Collected in her Nothin' But Good Times Ahead(1993).