no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

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