Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 01:48:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Fwd: [HUMOR] Texas Quotes
More Humor ehh?
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Date: 97-07-15 22:13:04 EDT
from michel@ricochet.net
Texas Quotes:
"Cyanide is a scare word."
- Director of the Texas Water Quality Board
"It just makes good sense to put all your eggs in one basket."
- Texas Rep. Joe Salem speaking on an amendment requiring all revenues
to go into the state treasury
"Lemme give ya' a hypothetic."
- Texas Rep. Renal Rosson
"Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead
armadillos."
- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower
"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in
wheelchairs
"Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art, but not a person
who can create one."
- A. C. Greene
"No thanks, once was enough."
- Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked if he had been born again
"Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant."
- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas
Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish
"I'd just make a little bit of money, I wouldn't make a whole lot."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis defending himself against the charge
that he would personally profit from a bill he had introduced.
"Well, there never was a Bible in the room."
- Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked about repeatedly lying about the
SMU football scandal.
"I am filled with humidity."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
"You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."
- Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson, on secretaries
"Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit."
- Ronald Reagan
"If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that
man's head."
- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing President
George Bush's policies
"Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."
- George Bush discussing a Walter Mondale comment that he didn't have
the manhood to apologize for an incorrect assertion
"If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to
listen..."
- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower
"I move we recess to go outside and throw up."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing
"This is a real competitive business."
- A gas station owner, when asked to explain the rapid rise in gasoline
prices when Kuwait was invaded
"...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women..."
- Law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote
"It's the sediment of the House that we adjourn."
- Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton
"Let's do this in one foul sweep." - Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton
"This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
"I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished
yourselves this session."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
"We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
"There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind."
- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis
"I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."
- Anon.
"There are still places where people think that the function of the
media is to provide information."
- Don Rottenberg
"Which one is that?" "I just voted the way my wife told me to; she knew
what it was."
- Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, when asked how he
had voted on the only proposition on the Texas ballot
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