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I only aim at the powerful.
I'm happy to be called a liberal.
Of course, it has never paid much.
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
New York is just as provincial as anyone else.
Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.
Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.
Don't get me started about the media double standard.
I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.
Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
Oh, hell, I can’t go on a spiritual journey—I'm constipated.
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.
If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day
I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.
I couldn't find any way to tell the truth in a regular newspaper.
It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.
...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.
Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.
I've thought for years that newspapers should all be owned by nonprofits.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
People asked me during the Iraq war if I was afraid to speak out. I said no.
If you ever get to the place where injustice doesn't bother you, you're dead.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.