It’s all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you...

I am not anti-gun. I’m pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns...

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She...

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

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.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.”[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001]

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

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point–race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.