It’s a damn sight simpler to criticize other people’s ideas than it is to set forth your own. One is never in so much danger of making an ass of one’s self as when one is engaged in saying, “This I believe …”

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

Essay (1973-01), “Pitfalls of Reporting in the Lone Star State,” Houston Journalism Review
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Collected in Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (1991).