Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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.
I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.
Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
People ask me, 'What is the mystique of the Texas songwriter?' Well, we ran barefoot from March until November. I think there's something about being a barefoot kid that gets you closer to the place - you take root.
I am constantly reminded that as Texans, we are exceptional people.
That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.
There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.
Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.
Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
I'm not for the parties. I'm for Texas.
I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
