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• If the King’s English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

  Ma Ferguson

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• I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.

  Aggie Pate

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• In plain Texas talk, it’s ‘do the right thing’

  Ross Perot

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• Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

  Tom DeLay

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  Tags in Conservatives, Texas, Stupidity

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  Fairuza Balk

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• Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas — finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

  Molly Ivins

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• There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…that says, fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Tags in Bushisms, Texas

• As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

  George W. Bush

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• In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor’s] office; it’s mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

  Molly Ivins

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• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Oh, it’s just that your life is at stake.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Texas

• I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

  Molly Ivins

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• As a veteran of many an electoral defeat at the polls, may I remind you of the proper Texan attitude toward slaughter at the polls?

  A few years before Billie Carr died this September at age 74, a friend called to ask how she was doing. “Well,” she said, “They just impeached my boy up in Washington, there’s not a Democrat left in statewide office in Texas, the Republicans have taken every judgeship in Harris County, and yesterday I found out I have cancer.”

  Pause.

  “I think I’ll go out and get a pregnancy test because with my luck, it’ll come back positive.”

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Texas

• I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

  Ann Richards

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• I am delighted to be here with you this evening because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.

  Ann Richards

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• Poor George. He can’t help it – he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

  Ann Richards

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