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"He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things."
"And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil."
"I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control."
"Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas."
"Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way."
"I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas."
"Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best.""
"Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either."
"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
"The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master."
"I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running."
"I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it."
"The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning."
"There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud."
"Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America."
"Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl."
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable."
"She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America."
"You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans."
