#texas

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#me #memories #mosquitoes #most #texas

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#cloud #dry #hot #sky #sunny

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing' ↗

— Ross Perot

#plain #right #right thing #talk #texas

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? ↗

— Rick Perry

#balancing #billion #budget #climate #day

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.' ↗

— Rick Perry

#decade #even #future #here #into

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

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

— Ann Richards

#had #i #knew #notion #pretty

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. ↗

— Ann Richards

#had #i #knew #notion #pretty