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I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter - nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.

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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.

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Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 30th, 1944

Died: January 31st, 2007

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