Quotes About Texas Legislature

#1. How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Kinky Friedman

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.

Rick Perry

#5. I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing.

Kristin Hannah

#6. If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Jason Calacanis

#7. As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

William Hazlitt

#8. I much prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Orson Welles

#9. Angels?' 'You know. The ones in the old stories. How they can fly to heaven.' 'Do you think anyone believes in them anymore?' he asks. 'I don't know. No. Do you?' 'I believe in you.' he says.

Ally Condie

#10. A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

Donna Karan

#11. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

Gail Carson Levine

#12. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

#13. Prisoned in glass beneath my seals of red.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

Molly Ivins