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Texas Quotes

A big state, said in a few lines.

This set ranges from a musician noting Dallas as a birthplace despite growing up elsewhere, to a joke about where oil sits versus where policy gets made. It also nods toward the state's long, unsettled history, a subject explored further in our Geography collection.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Quotes by Sam Houston

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Quotes by Ronnie Dunn

I'm just a kid from El Paso, Texas.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008.

Quotes by Roger Stone

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.

Quotes by Robin Zander

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

Quotes by Robert Woodrow Wilson

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

I love working in Texas anywhere.

Quotes by Robert Duvall

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

Quotes by Rick Perry

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

Quotes by Rick Perry

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

Quotes by Rick Perry

I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.

Quotes by Rick Perry

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Quotes by Richard Roeper

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

Quotes by Pierre Salinger

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

Quotes by Phil Anselmo

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

Quotes by Peter Jennings

The dangers of TATP bombs can be seen in the case of Matthew Rugo and Curtis Jetton, 21-year-old roommates in Texas City, Texas. They didn't have any bomb-making training and were manufacturing explosives in 2006 from concentrated bleach when their...

Quotes by Peter Bergen

HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.

Quotes by Pete Gallego

It's always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.

Quotes by Pete Gallego

California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.

Quotes by Pete Gallego

Texas comes across here as both a personal marker of identity and a place with a genuinely tangled past. For related themes, browse our Culture and Identity pages.