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Kinky Friedman "I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes."
Kinky Friedman "How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?"
Professor George. P. Garrison "The greatness of Texas lies not so much in its vast extent of territory and its abundance of natural resources as in the character of its people which is a composite with the good predominant of qualities peculiar to many lands, whence the citizenship of the state has been recruited."
Ed Gillespie "Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans."
Ed Gillespie "I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics."
As told to author Mary Elizabeth Goldman by her father "And now, in my nineties I still see Texas as a land of opportunity for all people. And through all these years, the one thing I've always noticed about Texans is a genuine friendliness, not just for each other because Texans have never been clannish, but there is a real eagerness about Texans. Texans are proud of this land and I think Texans want everybody to experience the spirit of Texas."
Senator Phil Gramm "I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big."
Greg Grandin "In Texas, the Rangers were established on an ad hoc in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish Borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans was replaced Native Americans as the prime target of Ranger repression."
Graham Greene "In the daytime, San Antonio is more Mexican than American, but not quite genuine Mexican, but picture postcard Mexican."
Rachel Griffiths "You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses."
John Gunther "If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?"
Pete Hamill "There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else."
Joseph Heller "The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him."
O. Henry "The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, the thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212."
Jay Hernandez "I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it."
June Hershey "The stars at night are big and bright, Deep in the heart of Texas, The prairie sky is wide and high, Deep in the heart of Texas, The sage in bloom is like perfume, Deep in the heart of Texas, Reminds me of the one that I love, Deep in the heart of Texas."
Conrad Hilton "There's a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in."
Christopher Hitchens "It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state‚ a state that had its own courageous revolution‚ from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks‚ as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told."