Craddick, Downing, Jackson, Nelson, Bush, Friedman, Wimmer, and Murray House Speaker Tom Craddick, asked whether bills under consideration by the Legislature would remedy the school finance lawsuit pending in court: "As far as a total fix I think, that was your question, I don't think it does that. It fixes some pieces of that, I don't think it's a total fix." Craddick again, in a written statement sent to reporters after his first comments caused some of his colleagues to throw vases at the walls: "I have been asked whether I think HB 2 and HB 3 will cure all the problems in the lawsuit. I want to emphasize that I am not lawyer. Nevertheless, I do think that together the two bills will establish a fair and constitutionally sound school finance system, and we hope that it will pass muster with the courts." Clayton Downing, director of the Texas School Coalition and a former school superintendent, in The Dallas Morning News: "Nearly everybody I know has given up on the Legislature and is ready to take our chances with the Supreme Court." Sen. Mike Jackson, R-La Porte, talking about the special legislative session on school finance in the Houston Chronicle: "I don't think people are overly enthusiastic about being here. The mood I sense is everybody's pretty skeptical about being successful, and that creates the mood of, well, I hope we're not just here wasting our time." Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Lewisville, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "If the lieutenant governor, the speaker and the governor had gotten together... worked out those kinks [and] called us back, we could have been through in a week." President George W. Bush, on U.S. Attorney General Al Gonzalez, a former justice on the Texas Supreme Court: "And all of a sudden this fella, who is a good public servant and a really fine person, is under fire. And so do I like it? No, I don't like it. At all." Gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, talking to a crowd about immigration at a book signing and quoted by the San Antonio Express-News: "We divide 679 miles of border into five jurisdictions. To each jurisdiction we appoint a Mexican general. To each of them, we hold $1 million in a bank account ... And we withdraw $5,000 every time we catch an illegal alien coming through his jurisdiction." Kurt Wimmer, a media lawyer, in The New York Times: "When the Supreme Court says there's nothing wrong with forcing reporters to testify and go to jail, other lawyers are looking at that and saying, 'Why shouldn't I subpoena a reporter?'" Political scientist Richard Murray of the University of Houston, asked about term limits by the Houston Chronicle: "The Legislature might be slow or even dumb, but they are not going to start limiting their own political futures in that way."