Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.

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

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

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.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.