I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.