Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what's wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not the ones who just blame others.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

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.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.