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To: larryjoe who wrote (15387)7/21/2000 4:46:17 PM
From: Guardian  Read Replies (2) of 62558
 
The following are actual quotes from Texas politicians:

Texas Rep. Joe Salem speaking on an amendment requiring all revenues
to go into the state treasury: "It just makes good sense to put all
your eggs in one basket."

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower: "Ain't nothin' in the
middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in
wheel chairs: "And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"

A. C. Greene: "Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art,
but not a person who can create one."

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas
Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish: "Oh good. Now
he'll be bi-ignorant."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis defending himself against the charge
that he would personally profit from a bill he had introduced: "I'd
just make a little bit of money, I wouldn't make a whole lot."

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing President
George Bush's policies: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I
want drillin' rights on that man's head."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing: "I move we
recess to go outside and throw up."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis: "There's a lot of uncertainty that's
not clear in my mind."

Don Rottenberg: "There are still places where people think that the
function of the media is to provide information."
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