You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don’t know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. – Robert Duvall
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it’s extra special to be a part of that. – Ricky Williams
There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences. – Shia LaBeouf
Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even ‘The New York Times’ let it slip into its pages that, ‘Texas is the future.’ – Rick Perry
My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. – Robert Woodrow Wilson
In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. – Sam Houston
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. – Peter Jennings
When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that Latinos didn’t want to speak Spanish. You would ask a question, only to be answered in English. – Raul de Molina
You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn’t raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves – and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? – Rick Perry
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition. – Roger Clemens
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. – Sam Houston
You know Texas is – even more now that Enron has bit the dust – it’s held up on the back of small businesses. – Rachel Griffiths
I don’t know how much credit I can take for ‘Walker, Texas Ranger,’ because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever. – Paul Haggis
HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling. – Pete Gallego
The CDC and the federal government have already admitted that they have failed to get ahead of the spread of Ebola in Texas, and we aren’t going to let that happen in Florida. – Rick Scott
I’m all about job creation. That’s what I’ve done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that’s what I’m focused on. – Rick Perry
California – with more cars, more drivers and more people – still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does. – Pete Gallego
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly. – Richard H. Davis
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. – Pierre Salinger
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? – Richard Land
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. – Robert Toombs
Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008. – Roger Stone
