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

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

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

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.