I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

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

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.