Texas Quotes

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
George Carlin

Good, Fewer, Texans

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Rock, Country, Hell

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.
Willie Nelson

Control, Reasons

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
Fran Lebowitz

Iraq, Calling, Taxi

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
George W. Bush

Walking, Swagger, Folks

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston

Country, Again, Stand

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

Time, Someone, Tell

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

Rainy, Last, While

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack

Women, Best, Amazing

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.
Ellen DeGeneres

Men, School, Wife

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck

War, Football, Team

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
Peter Hook

Great, Done, Put

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

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
Rick Perry

Marriage, Death, Gay

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

May, Learn, Oppression

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins

Money, Women, Around

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
Darrell Royal

Again, Knew, University

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.
Andrew Jackson

Law, Country, Door

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

Future, After, Here

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin

Down, Settle, Ok

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

Love, State, Consider

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight

Winning, Career, Times

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.
Jensen Ackles

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

Christian, Become, Necessary

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Michael Caine

Speech, English, Opposite

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.
Rick Perry

School, Small, Working

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
Rick Perry

Freedom, Blessings, Around

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch

Weather, Wait, News

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

Home, Live, Forever

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