Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

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

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

One of the things I said was that I had been in great hopes that I would become a better person as a result of confronting my own mortality, but it actually never happened. I didn't become a better person.

It's hard to argue against cynics -- they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

Nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything -- you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

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.