The best of Texas is yet to come.

The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

Lady Bird was very, very shy and yet she would go out and speak publicly on behalf of her husband and on issues that mattered to her. Someone asked her once how she did it, and she said you have to "get so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." And I have found that that absolutely captures those moments when I fought for something I cared about. I get so caught up in fighting for things that are important to me that it pushes me through fear and doubt.

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.