Texas Quotes - Page 22

• Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

  Mark McKinnon

  Government, Debt, Environment

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• President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

  Jay Leno

  Latin, Mean, America

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• You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

  Jay Leno

  Sound, Alex, Realizing

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• President Bush fell off his mountain bike down on his ranch in Texas. A couple weeks ago, John Kerry fell off his bicycle. See, doesn't this make you miss President Clinton? That guy, he could ride anything without falling off.

  Jay Leno

  Couple, Fall, Guy

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• I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

  Stephanie Beatriz

  Thinking, People, Mexican

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.

  Bill Maher

  Years, Iraq, President

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• Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Home, Years

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Kids, Bombs

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• Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally and without parents, particularly in Texas], and things like, we find smallpox in an NIH lab, after 50 years? Why didn't you find it, like, five weeks ago or three years ago? There was thing after thing. But the big ones were [dealing with] the Ebola [outbreak], the unaccompanied children. [It was] perhaps a bigger challenge than I had calculated on my yellow pad as I was thinking about this role.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

  Calvin Trillin

  Basketball, Sports, Cities

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• I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

  Calvin Trillin

  Enough, Chili

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• North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

  Dave Liebman

  Serious, Jazz, Program

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• The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Couple, Drama

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• Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesnt have enough money to import much of anything, either.

  Richard Engel

  Country, Gold, World

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• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  Wendy Davis

  Jobs, Priorities, Leader

  "Wendy Davis announces she is running for Texas governor" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  Wendy Davis

  Running, Thinking, Two

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• I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.

  Wendy Davis

  Mom, Running, Government

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• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  Wendy Davis

  Teacher, Art, School

  "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

  Wendy Davis

  Believe, Long, Quid Pro Quo

  "Wendy Davis Announces She's Running For Texas Governor" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.marieclaire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Texas is as odd as it is vast.

  Henry Rollins

  Odd

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• Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn't be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii!

  Jay Leno

  Home, Holiday, Cutting

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• Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Dog, Song

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• Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

  Jay R. Ferguson

  Arkansas, Dallas, Whole Family

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• Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Jobs, Growing Up, Smart

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• I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

  Haylie Duff

  Dog, Writing, Play

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