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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (87984)	1/5/2001 1:25:45 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

More quotes, Texas-style ;-) "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'll 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 "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 "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 "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