One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.
From Molly Ivins
Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.
Arkansas, the state Bill Clinton loves and that loves him back, is a place with just no pretension at all.
The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.
The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us.
I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.
New York is just as provincial as anyone else.
I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
Rove, of course, is an exceptionally good, exceptionally skillful campaign guy, and Bush himself is really gifted at the political end of politics. But he's always been, as he says, misunderestimated.
I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.
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