Greg Abbott Quotes

He got a call from a journalist, who was in another room on the same floor. Come and join us for a drink, the journalist said. O’Leary walked across. There, he found a celebration of the broader Abbott family, select journalists, including conservative writers Piers Akerman, Miranda Devine, Greg Sheridan and Dennis Shanahan, and dignitaries such as Max Moore-Wilton, a former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Howard.

With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. "I'm EMBARRASSED," Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; "Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA

Greg Abbott’s weaselly visage will hafta do. Huh. Surprisingly effective.

Stop visualizing it, Wills. Focus on Greg Abbott’s punchable face.

Greg Abbott was a great track star in high school, having never lost a race, but in 1984 a tree fell on him while he was jogging through the wealthy enclave of Houston’s River Oaks, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He had just graduated from law school and had no health insurance. Fortunately, he won a $9 million judgment from the homeowner whose tree had fallen, and from the tree company that had inspected the tree and failed to recommend its removal. Later, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, and then as attorney general, Abbott supported measures that capped pain-and-suffering damages in medical malpractice cases at $250,000.

In 2016, the Republican Party of Texas held its state convention. In an effort spearheaded by the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), a proposal that would have added a plank to the official platform calling for an up-or-down vote on Texas leaving the Union was considered. The proposal passed the Temporary Platform Committee by a two-thirds majority, throwing Party Chairman Tom Mechler and the staff of Governor Greg Abbott into an absolute panic. Defying all precedent, Mechler and the governor’s agents lobbied to replace members of the Temporary Platform Committee with members who were opposed to the plank before the committee became the Permanent Platform Committee. The unprecedented nature of the response from the political establishment cannot be overstated. One convention delegate, a longtime Republican activist said, “I’ve been coming to conventions for 30 years and I have never seen this.” In

I would get under Abbott’s skin in question time if I recited some Latin words and phrases denoting Abbott’s hypocrisy, assuming that Abbott’s religious training would enable him to understand. I was sceptical, but at the same time enthusiastic. I never got around to it, but I kept my little list of Latin words and phrases in my question time folder for the whole of the period of the Gillard Government. My favourite was actually derived from Greek, the obscure word pseudologue, which means ‘compulsive liar’—an accurate description of Abbott’s behaviour in his scare campaign on carbon.