* "It just makes good sense to put all your eggs in one basket."

- Texas Rep. Joe Salem speaking on an amendment requiring all revenues to go into the state treasury

* "Lemme give ya' a hypothetic."

- Texas Rep. Renal Rosson

* "Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower

* "And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in wheelchairs

* "Dallas salutes a person who can buy a piece of art, but not a person who can create one."

- A. C. Greene

* "No thanks, once was enough."

- Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked if he had been born again

* "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant."

- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish

* "I'd just make a little bit of money, I wouldn't make a whole lot."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis defending himself against the charge that he would personally profit from a bill he had introduced.

* "Well, there never was a Bible in the room."

- Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked about repeatedly lying about the SMU football scandal.

* "I am filled with humidity."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

* "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that man's head."

- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing President George Bush's policies

* "If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen..."

- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower

* "I move we recess to go outside and throw up."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis during a budget hearing

* "This is a real competitive business."

- A gas station owner, when asked to explain the rapid rise in gasoline prices when Kuwait was invaded

* "...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women..."

• Law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote

* "It's the sediment of the House that we adjourn."

- Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton

• "Let's do this in one foul sweep."

- Texas House Speaker Wayne Clayton

* "This is unparalyzed in the state's history."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

* "I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

* "We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

* "There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind."

- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

* "I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."

- Anon.

* "There are still places where people think that the function of the media is to provide information."

- Don Rottenberg

* "Which one is that?" "I just voted the way my wife told me to; she knew what it was."

- Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, when asked how he had voted on the only proposition on the Texas ballot