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

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

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

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,

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

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

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

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

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

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.

Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

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

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

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

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

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

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed,

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

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

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

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Oh, hell, I can't go on a spiritual journey - I'm constipated.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

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

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

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

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

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

You could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

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

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

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