Subject: TEXAS Politics

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The following are actual quotes from Texas politicians:

Texas Rep. Joe Salem speaking on an amendment requiring all revenues to go into the state treasury: "It just makes good sense to put all your eggs in one basket."

Texas agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower: "Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to handicapped people in wheel chairs:
"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"

A.C. Greene: "Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art, but not a prson who can create one."

**Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told Texas Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish: "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis defending himself against the charge that he would personally profit from a bill he had introduced: "I'd just make a little bit of money, I wouldn't make a whole lot."

**Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis in budget hearing: "I move we recess to go outside and throw up."

Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis: "There's lots of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind."

Don Rottenberg: "There are still places where people think that
the function of the media is to provide information."

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