Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don’t much care for.
Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman.
Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.
Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
The first rule of holes: When you’re in one stop digging.
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point – race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
I still believe in Hope – mostly because there’s no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
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?
Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn’t been paying attention.
When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley’s daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn’t it?