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I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.