I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

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

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.

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

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.