I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

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

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

I grew up in America - I was born and raised in Texas. I might look different, but at the same time, I'm pretty American.

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

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

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

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.

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.

Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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