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" One nice thing about the benefit of long experience with la frontera is that we in Texas don't have to run around getting all hysterical about immigrants. The border is porous. When you want cheap labor, you open it up; when you don't, you shut it down. It works to our benefit - it always has. "

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

" I only aim at the powerful. "

" 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. "

" I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. "

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

" All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun. "

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

" It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell. "

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

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

" I'm happy to be called a liberal. "

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" I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

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

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

" 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. "

" People like to help. They like to be able to do something for you. Let them. "

" I'd worked for the 'Dallas Times Herald' for ten years, and its death was a kick in the gut the like of which I cannot recall ever having experienced. "

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

" One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person. "

" The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands. "

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

" Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president. "

" It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there. "

" Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact. "

" People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact. "

" How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them? "

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" 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. "

" New York is just as provincial as anyone else. "

" Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. "