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«In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.»
«Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.»
«As they say around the [Texas] Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.»
Author: Molly Ivins | Keywords: legislature, screw, Texas, whiskey
«In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.»
«If I owned Hell and Texas I would rent out Texas and live in Hell»
«Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.»
«I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.»
«All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.»
«As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.»
«I had a bag of fritos, they were texas grilled fritos. These fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of something, when we used to fire up the barbeque and throw down some fritos. I can still see my dad with the apron on, better flip that frito, dad, you know how I like mine.»

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