Perry, Lovin, Perry, Craddick, Hutchison, Higginbotham, DeLay, and FriedmanGov. Rick Perry, on legislation that would put the state's ban on gay and lesbian marriages in the state constitution, quoted by KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth: "Texans have made a decision about marriage, and if there is some other state that has a more lenient view than Texas then maybe that's a better place for them to live." Rev. Robin Lovin, a Methodist minister and Southern Methodist University professor, quoted in The New York Times: "There are lots of reasons to go to church on Sunday, but making laws isn't one of them." Perry, quoted in The Dallas Morning News: "We may be on the grounds of a Christian school today, but our message speaks to all who believe in standing up for the unborn, all who cherish strong, traditional families, regardless of party, ethnicity or creed. We're here because a quiet majority decided to have their voices heard. We could be doing this at a parking lot at Wal-Mart." House Speaker Tom Craddick, quoted in the Amarillo Globe-News on the prospects for school finance: "Even if we went in tomorrow and passed a bill, we don't know what the court is going to say is wrong with the system because the lower court didn't tell us what the specifics were -- they just said it's broken." U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, caught by the Houston Chronicle saying she wanted to be sure none of her utterances led anyone to a conclusion: "I will talk a lot, but if you think you've understood anything I've said, you're misunderstanding." Federal Judge Patrick Higginbotham, in his majority opinion on Texas congressional maps: "The history of electoral politics in Texas during the latter half of the twentieth century can be described as the story of the dominance, decline, and eventual eclipse of the Democratic Party as the state's majority party." U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, in the Washington Post, saying congressional Democrats are trying to keep ethics in the headlines by denying him a hearing: "They don't want an ethics committee. They would like to drag this out and have me and others before the ethics committee in an election year." Kinky Friedman, quoted in The Daily Texan: "Only two kinds of people wear cowboy hats: cowboys and assholes. I hope I'm the former."