From: seeker@bestweb.net (Diane Kearns)

: >The following are actual quotes from (actual) Texas politicians:

: > 1. "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 : >

: > 2. "Lemme give ya' a hypothetic."
: > Texas Rep. Renal Rosson : >

: > 3. "Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
: > Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower : >

: > 4. "And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in
: > wheelchairs : >

: > 5. "Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art, but not a
: > person who can create one."
: > A. C. Greene : > :

> 6. "No thanks, once was enough."
: > Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked if he had been born again : >

: > 7. "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant."
: > Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas
: > Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish : >

: > 8. "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. : >

: > 9. "Well, there never was a Bible in the room."
: > Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked about repeatedly lying about the
: > SMU football scandal. : >

: > 10. "I am filled with humidity."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis : >

: > 11. "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 : >

: > 12. "If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier
: > to listen"
: > Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower : >

: > 13. "I move we recess to go outside and throw up."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing : >

: > 14. "This is a real competitive business."
: > A gas station owner, when asked to explain the rapid rise in
: > gasoline prices when Kuwait was invaded : >

: > 15. "...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women..."
: > Law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote : >

: > 16. "It's the sediment of the House that we adjourn."
: > Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton : >

: > 17. "Let's do this in one foul sweep."
: > Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton : >

: > 18. "This is unparalyzed in the state's history."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis : >

: > 19. "I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished
: > yourselves this session."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis : >

: > 20. "We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis : >

: > 21. "There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind."
: > Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis : >

: > 22. "I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."
: > Anon. : >

: > 23. "There are still places where people think that the function of the
: > media is to provide information."
: > Don Rottenberg

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