I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

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.

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.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.