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The following are actual quotes from Texas politicians.
Source: Billie Smith
"Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
-Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower
"No thanks, once was enough." - Texas Governor Cill Clements, asked if he had been born again.
"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.
"I move we recess to go outside and throw up." Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing
"...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.." Law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote
"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.
"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.
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