I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.