Texas Quotes

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

You know, I got the third most uninsured district in the whole state of Texas, probably number nine in the whole country. As a Blue Dog, I'm also looking at the cost. So, I have got a very unique district.

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.