My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
A. J. Foyt

My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.
Janine Turner

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Jessica Savitch

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
Molly Ivins

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.
Katie Couric

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.
Michael Burgess

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
Rick Perry

President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
Bianca Jagger

President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
Lee Child

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.
Joseph Bologna

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
Roger Clemens

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Richard Linklater

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.
Chris Bell

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
Don Baylor

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
Michael McCaul