Annie, get your gun!

Thanks, Governor.

"I've alway said, in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends can kill you.”

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did.  She just did it backwards and in high heels."

“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.”

“Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.”

"I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”

Texas State Library

“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my Dad told me I could.  I was in college before I found out he might be wrong." 

Reacting to complaints of a creche on the lawn of the Texas Capitol Building:  "You know, that's probably as close as three wise men will ever get to the Texas Legislature, so why don't we just let them be."

And... at the 1998 Democratic National Convention as keynote speaker, about George Herbert Walker Bush:  "Poor George, he can't help it.  He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

“I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.”