英语格言警句_Texas_(T4)

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

- Phillip H. Sheridan

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. [on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999]

- Tom DeLay

Poor George. He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. [1988 keynote address, Democratic Natinal Convention]

- Ann Richards

I am delighted to be here with you this evening because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.[1988 keynote address, Democratic Natinal Convention]

- Ann Richards

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

- Ann Richards

"I think I'll go out and get a pregnancy test because with my luck, it'll e back positive."

- Molly Ivins

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

- Molly Ivins

Oh, it's just that your life is at stake.

- Molly Ivins

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the atose.

- Molly Ivins

As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

- George W. Bush

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again. [9/17/2002]

- George W. Bush

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

- A. J. Foyt

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things:One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell.The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

- Butch Hancock

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

- Molly Ivins

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Governor of Texas (circa 1920)

- Ma Ferguson

I didn't know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.

at a non-denominational mayor's breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

- Aggie Pate