9 Quotes by Harvey Kronberg

When Bush was sworn in the second time as governor, his father is standing behind him, and as he turns after taking the oath of office, he walks past his father's outstretched arms to Bullock, who truly was his practical political mentor, and he embraces Bullock first.

Even though we have a democratically controlled House, we have committee chairmen from both political parties in the Texas House of Representatives.

The speaker is weaker today than he was a week ago.

The speaker forced a lot of members to cast votes on school finance and other issues that were not always popular with the folks back home, and that's what a lot of members were having to defend themselves on during this campaign.

It takes out a big organizing force. He was really a centerpiece in terms of fundraising, and he was an ideological anchor, and, obviously, as the majority leader in Congress had a major ripple effect on the flow of money to Texas.

I knew that the folks in D.C. were going to be surprised and some were going to be chagrined. But it's not all that uncommon here in Texas.

I do not dismiss Merritt's allegation out of hand.

You could have a dramatically different House of Representatives - one that's far more independent of the leadership than currently exists.

This has nothing to do with children or education. This is purely to solve a technicality in the law, where we have inadvertently created a statewide property tax.