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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.
- Among
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.
- Head Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
- Quite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I take Rush Limbaugh seriously is not because he's offensive or right-wing, but because he is one of the few people addressing a large group of disaffected people in this country. And despite his frequent denials, Limbaugh does indeed have a somewhat cult-like effect on his ditto heads.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.
- Hopeless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
- Nov 07, 2020
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
- Miss
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020