Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
Mike Huckabee, inferring that the anti-discrimination and equality movements’ main goal is to destroy religion.
Where will it stop? It won’t stop until there are no more churches, until there are no more people who are spreading the Gospel.
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Public school librarian Sara Stevenson, calling on legislators to stop their repeated efforts to pass private school voucher legislation.
My hope is that all Texans unite against these efforts to take money from our public schools. I’m optimistic that Texans will bury vouchers once again.
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State Rep. Stuart Spitzer, R-Kaufman, speaking in favor of his budget amendment to strip $3 million from HIV prevention programs and shift the funding to abstinence education.
My goal is for everyone to be abstinent until they are married.
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State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Beford, on the marathon debate expected today in the Texas House of Representatives over the proposed state budget.
It’ll be a bloody day on the House floor.
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John Jarnecke, president of the separatist group Republic of Texas, which claims that Texas and the U.S. didn’t legally join.
Our motto is “One Nation Under One God.” If you’re Muslim, or whatever, then you’re not going to agree with us. The border’s that way.
