“Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.”

“So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”

“Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.”

“The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.”

“Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.”

“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.”

“The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.”

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

“Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.”

“When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.”

“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.”