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Wendy Davis "Texans don't want to sit back and watch Austin turn into Washington DC. State leaders in power keep forcing people two opposite Corners to prepare for a fight instead of coming together to get things done."
Wendy Davis "Texas deserve better than failed leaders who Dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors it's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas is Future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us."
Wendy Davis "Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with."
Wendy Davis "Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy."
Wendy Davis "enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians whistling only to each other rather than real Texans."
Wendy Davis "Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in How Deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between pre-kindle programs and English, algebra and art."
Jimmy Dean "I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damn irrigation Wells. I didn't like that when I was 16, and I know I wouldn't like it when I'm 80."
J. Frank Dobie, writer and folklorist "These Texians are the most independent people under the whole canopy of heaven."
Sam Donaldson "Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm."
Katherine Dunn "There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."
Jonathan Eisen and Harold Straughn, authors. 'Unknown Texas' "Texas has always been an enigma having an affair with a contradiction."
Dwight D. Eisenhower "Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and afreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
Jim Evans "I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring."
Jim Evans "After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season."
Edna Ferber "Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive."
Ma Ferguson "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas."
Ian Fleming "James Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seem to come from Texas."
George Foreman, boxer "I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today."
A.J. Foyt, Car racing legend "I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways."
Joe B. Frantz "Texas is like an attractive, troublesome, and immature person who gets an inheritance -- ranching -- and then gets a second one -- oil -- and now has to grow up and get to work."
Kinky Friedman, musician and author "The land area of Texas is larger than all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois combined."
Kinky Friedman "The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'"