...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

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

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

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

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.