The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
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.
I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.
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.
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?
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.
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.
Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.
Public campaign financing isn't perfect and can doubtlessly be improved upon as we go.
If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
There is never anyone quite so wonderful as the people who were seniors when you were a freshman.
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
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.
It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
