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" Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. "

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" Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state. "

" If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely. "

" As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism. "

" If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean. "

" You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved. "

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

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

" 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. "

" On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done. "

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

" Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically. "

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

" For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid. "

" If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner. "

" I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet. "

" What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life. "

" The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time. "

" Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" People asked me during the Iraq war if I was afraid to speak out. I said no. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do. "

" So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. "

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