A billion dollars -- that's fairly sizeable, but not in the scheme of things in respect to the Texas City refinery.

Bruce Lanni

In the Big 12 these days, you've got to be pretty darn competitive. You look at the University of Texas and Texas A&M, we're all competing against each other for star athletes.

Ron Burton

The Houston location offers considerable market exposure and access to current and potential customers. It will allow us to serve our valued customers in Texas, while developing and consolidating commercial relationships with the Latin American countries that are members of the CAFTA agreement and with Mexico.

J. Guillermo Villar

I'm very excited to be here and have a lot of hometown friends here. I've got people I haven't talked to in years calling me. Just being in Texas in general is fun.

Hunter Pence

Rick Perry is a weak governor with a record of failure on the issues important to Texas.

Bob Gammage

They have donated a whole camp in New Braunfels, Texas for a whole period of a month.

Nick Papatonis

I got a whole new great respect for the state of Texas.

Deon Santisteven

You've really gotten off to a great start. There's a lot of self-sufficiency on the part of the folks over there who are, on their own initiative, taking up and starting the planning process, getting on with the rebuilding period. I think you're going to have a pretty swift and effective recovery over there in Texas.

Gil Jamieson

We continue to believe that this transaction would benefit customers in Texas and southern Oklahoma who would be offered the benefits of Kroger's superior selection, service and value in this aggressively competitive market. We intend to explore our legal alternatives.

Paul Heldman

[Texas A&M was the highest-profile program that fell short in both football (887) and men's basketball (839).] In both cases, we made coaching changes, and some athletes decided to leave, ... In my 30 years in athletic administration, when there are coaching changes, you will have athletes leave.

Bill Byrne

The outlook is strong for San Antonio and all major metro areas in Texas. If 2006 doesn't break records here, it will be the second-strongest year we've seen.

Barbara Tarin

Texas A&M is a great team, the Big XII is a great conference. They're going to be up there at the end of the year too. Games like this are going to help us down the road, that's how we're looking at it now.

Tommy Wynn

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is not recommending any treatment between now and spring. If treatment is selected, spring is the best time to do it. Hydrilla goes through natural growth cycles - it's going into a dormant stage right now.

Gary Morgan

There is no normal in Texas. It's basically extremes. We were in a drought, and now we have rain.

Ted Ryan

We have started shutting down our Texas City refinery this morning and expect it to be completely shut by later today.

Linda Casey

We know a lot of the Texas girls. It's for bragging rights.

Terry Kennedy

It's a manufacturer that has international ownership structure, and this project would generate just over 500 jobs, but they're still looking at a number of places in Texas and in surrounding states. It's a laundry list for that and the others at this point.

Tom Mullins

It looks like the city is behind it. It obviously helps us with recruiting in this area and in South Texas. We think it's a win-win situation for everybody.

Sean Allen

It's a good opportunity for them to finally take that next step. We've gotten real close a couple years in a row now. With that schedule, they'll get a lot more respect if they go down there and beat someone like Oklahoma or Texas.

Nick Leaders

We're not in negotiations with the State of Texas at this time. We have been contacted by the state government a while back. We've been contacted by various state governments over the past several months. We're only considering the state of Mississippi.

Michael Choo

We ain't even thinking about the division title. We've got to get better. That's all we know. We've got to be able to beat the two Texas teams (Dallas and San Antonio) and Phoenix in a playoff series, so we've got to get better.

Greg Buckner

We are disappointed with the judge's ruling and believe it does not represent a fair or accurate portrayal of Texas' efforts to provide health care to children on Medicaid.

Dan Bartlett

He's one of the top pitchers in East Texas. Losing him will be difficult for us.

Terry Pirtle

The sea ice was a record minimum in the satellite era since 1979 and probably in the last century. Compared to where it should have been, you've lost an area roughly twice the size of Texas.

Mark Serreze

I'm more positive about Texas than almost anywhere, because the underpinnings are good, and it hasn't had the huge run-up that other markets have.

Christopher Cagan

My grandmother didn't want to come to Atlanta; she wanted to stay home, ... I said, 'If anything happens, call me.' Everything has been OK so far. I have family in New Orleans. I hadn't talked to them. Some of the people I know went to Mississippi. Some went to Texas.

Warrick Dunn

The reality is most of the uninsured children in the United States live in Texas.

Valinda Bolton

We appreciate the opportunity to expand our relationship with Westar. Our fiber-optic services will provide highly reliable, high-speed connectivity, allowing Westar's Texas customers the ability to uplink and share video and other information quickly and reliably.

Bob Ferguson

You can't take anything away from (Texas State). They are one tough ball club. I give them a lot of credit, but there are things we need to fix.

Wes Meier

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.

Phyllis George

I just shook my head when I saw a Texas official on TV saying he can't make people leave cities in Rita's pathway. Of course they can. They can go door to door and take people out.

Lori Dotson

Texas is not the first state to take this step. Other states have already passed similar amendments, and there has been little if any noticeable impact on private employment laws in those states so far.

Scott Mcdonald

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

Edward M. Kennedy

The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition and their weather forecast doesn't look much better. They're saying they'll have little change through Wednesday.

E. Lynn Burkett

We're almost as bad as Texas.

Eugene Peterson

Not many people knew you could get into that tournament that way. Viewing it on TV, not a lot of people knew about Texas Hold 'Em. It caught on and got real big.

Evan Depew

But the time factor would make that kind of ruling a victory for [Texas Gov. George W.] Bush.

Erwin Chemerinsky

These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public land surrounded by private land.

Ernie Murray

The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere ... I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it ... two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by (the church).

Eric Newman

We've got a bunch of guys who get together every year for a dove hunt down in South Texas.

Eric Myers

The doubles point was critical. We came out flat, and they took it to us in doubles. But we've come back after losing the doubles point before. We believed we could come back, and we had our chances. Give Texas Tech credit, their young players played like veterans.

Eric Hayes

Where else can you see a delegation from Nigeria, a delegation from Texas and all of our state officers all in one place?

Erin Ferguson

I knew that we could do it, even when no one else thought we could, because that's just how we do it in Texas.

Erik Johnson

No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

Eric Wilson

The national media is ... clueless when it comes to knowledge about Congressional District 22 and its political makeup. Tom DeLay has been extremely attentive to the needs of District 22 since 1984. He had done a fine job for Texas and continues to do a fine job for us. So the question is not whether he wins, but how big he wins.

Eric Thode

No license is required in Texas, ... Anyone can claim to be a forester.

Eric Taylor

But how special is it to be inducted into a Hall of Fame in a place like Texas, because Texas is as big as it gets.

Emmitt Smith

I understand a little English from my days in Dallas. But when they speak French, I'm lost. Sometimes you wish you were in Texas.

Elias Martinez

Clearly, it is difficult to make a case for a housing price bubble in Austin or anyplace else in Texas, for that matter.

Eldon Rude

It's a gully across the country, but in Texas it's like a deep canyon.

Elizabeth Mcnichol

I'm in touch with my grandma, she's in Indiana, my uncle, he went back to New Orleans and I got a cousin in Texas.

Elaine Nunn

Last year we probably wouldn't have cared too much about the (Texas) loss because it was just one of the many we had. We didn't really talk about it too much ... it's a different mind-set this year.

Eetisha Riddle

It is extremely disappointing that BP Products failed to learn from the lessons of Texas City to assure their workers' safety and health.

Edwin Foulke

In the end, there's a high likelihood that in ten years, Capital One will look more like a thrift. I'd be surprised if I don't hear them make another bank acquisition by late 2006 in hot markets such as Florida or Texas.

Ed Groshans

When I came here, Texas had the greatest facility in the world at the time. What also attracted me to UT was the fact that I wouldn't lose as many good swimmers to the academically prestigious schools, because swimmers could also get a great education here.

Eddie Reese

Our main goal is to accelerate their educations, ... But we hope that after they go to college, they'll return to make their homes and careers in Texas.

Fred Allen

Some of those refineries in Texas, they're at sea level. It's a table top, it floods every easily.

Ed Silliere

A lot of money was spent in 2004 to produce the results that gave the Republicans their big majority in the Texas delegation. These districts have been drawn to elect either Democrats or Republicans.

Earl Black

The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition, and their weather forecast doesn't look much better. They're saying they'll have little change through Wednesday.

E. Lynn Burkett