Paul Bettencourt Quotations

I am relieved to be up here talking about $40 to $50 million worth of damage instead of $40 to $50 billion worth of damage.

Replacement voter registration certificates are arriving this week at absolutely no cost to Harris County taxpayers. Because this was the printer's error, the printer agreed to pay all printing and postage costs to correct it.

The whole class just shut up after that.

You don't talk back, I'll tell you that. I took my share of licks, but it was just a neat time.

How Benson ever got the name 'Benny' I don't know, but we used to call him Benny.

The concentration of the damage is much stronger outside the city of Houston and in the far eastern part of the county.