Dewhurst Quotes

#1. Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate ... It's what he's done every day in state government.

Ted Cruz

#2. If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

David Dewhurst

#3. If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.

Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

#4. You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

David Dewhurst

#5. Over the last several years, I've passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary cities, loser pay, border security, and the toughest Jessica's law in the entire nation against sexual predators.

David Dewhurst

#6. Ive never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

#7. This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.

David Dewhurst

#8. I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

David Dewhurst

#9. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

David Dewhurst

#11. A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Wally Lamb

#12. The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Ivan Illich

#13. We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

David Dewhurst

#14. I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

#15. When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

David Dewhurst

#16. My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

Donald Lambert

#17. Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul,

Zig Ziglar

#18. I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

Enzo Ferrari

#19. She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head.

John Crowley

#20. But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.

A. L. Kennedy

#21. I don't mind aging, I just don't want to be a day older.

Joan Rivers

#22. If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

David Dewhurst

#23. Three little words:
I was sold.

Pepper Winters

#24. Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

David Dewhurst

#25. If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

A.E. Van Vogt

#26. You never get tired of the buzz of touring.

Peter Noone

#27. We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

Colleen Dewhurst