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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.

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What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

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

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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

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

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'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

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The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.

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The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 30th, 1944

Died: January 31st, 2007

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