David Dewhurst Quotations

If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.

Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I have been very restrained in my comments about the House and the House leadership. But Speaker Craddick and I have a different point of view, ... I think the Legislature ought to reform our schools, not the courts.

I think the public deserves better from their elected officials,

The public deserved better from their elected officials,

Due to current uncertainties surrounding the non-reimbursed costs to Texas of Hurricane Katrina, I think it is prudent to wait several weeks until we know what Texas' post-Katrina obligations are for evacuees before we start spending our limited reserves,

These are all items we're going to seriously consider, ... But when we only have a finite amount of available funds, I want to take a look at our immediate costs from Hurricane Katrina.

Addressing these items is more a timing issue than whether or not we'll ultimately take care of them,

They are friends of mine. I have argued with them. I think they really have slowed this process down, and they brought fair reform of the tax system to a standstill,