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Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

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Stupidity, thy name is the Texas House of Representatives.

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If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

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We just need to get the hogs out of the creek so the water can clear up.

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Thou shalt not break the law with impunity, no matter who the hell thou art.

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

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You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

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The purpose of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

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Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

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Texans do not talk like other Americans... shit is a three-syllable word with a y in it.

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The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

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I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

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I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

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

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Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German.

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We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

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Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

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Politics in this country isn't about left and right; it's about up and down. The few are screwing the many.

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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.

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In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

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

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Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

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California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education — surely the death warrant of a civilization.

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It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

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You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

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I always thought the world was divided into only two kinds of people — those who think the world is divided into two kinds of people, and those who don't.

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As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

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The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

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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.

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