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

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" There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work. "

" Truly, if you can't cover a five-car pile-up on Route 128, you should not be covering a presidential campaign. "

" Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a familiar pattern. Like much of Bush's social policy - from faith-based social services to railing against gay marriage - women's issues are one of the bones they've decided they can throw to the Christian right. "

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

" When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. "

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

" I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry. "

" It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that. "

" The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. "

" The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there's a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time. "

" 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. "

" I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive. "

" I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result. "

" Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists. "

" I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person. "

" To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. "

" There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started. "

" 'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators. "

" Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong. "

" Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel. "

" I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas. "

" I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind. "

" I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin. "

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

" We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them. "

Elected Officials

" In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster. "

" Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother? "

" I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay. "

" I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon. "

" All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening. "