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" Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. "

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" Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all. "

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" There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief. "

" I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens? "

" I do object to those who jump from political hackery to flackery and expect respect. "

" Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn't matter what you say or how you say it. "

" I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened. "

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

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" We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind. "

" I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills. "

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

" Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated. "

" 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. "

" Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits. "

" Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigrant - a proud tradition in our nation of immigrants going back to the days of the Founders, when Ben Franklin thought we were going to be overrun by Germans. But Business likes illegal workers. "

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" Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time. "

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

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

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" Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat. "

" In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people. "

" Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado. "

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" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "