Many people did not care for Pat Buchanan's speech; it probably sounded better in the original German. - Molly Ivins

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this—all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

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.