Bob Livingston Quotes (40 Quotes)

These guys were all rednecks, but they just loved music We'd drive all the way down to San Antonio and go to Eastwood Country Club, which is the Black club... And we'd go to Ft. Worth to The Cave.

I anticipate it won't make a great deal of difference. I await the findings of the Judiciary Committee.

We are the majority -- have been the majority for the last four years, thanks to my friend Newt Gingrich ... But the problem is we are losing momentum. And what we don't want to do is be a minority party in two years and my speaker's race was integral to our keeping the majority party.

Fess Parker, when he played Davey Crockett, he had long hair. In Lubbock, everybody had to have a flat-top or you would get beat up. So here was The Beatles looking like Davey Crockett It was like a combination of Davey Crockett and music

I'm not sure if it will or not it is up to each individual member of Congress to weigh, ... I've seen some of the reaction of some of my colleagues in Washington especially some of those on the Judiciary Committee. It does not appear to have made a big difference.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

To those who are investigating me or others of my colleagues, please understand that I will not be intimidated by these efforts, ... These efforts will not deter me from performing my sworn duty under the Constitution as a member of Congress.

It was so intense At the dance hall, people hanging out of the rafters Everybody from Austin had come over and we were cutting a Live record. That had not been top-of-the-line mobile truck.

I don't have any idea what we're going to do until the Judiciary Committee reports.

Frankly we haven't decided yet ... the Judiciary Committee has not completed its work.

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

This is quite a deal. We showed up yesterday and pulled out our guitars. We were out on the curb, standing in the street, and had a rehearsal. We couldn't even remember what was on those records.

Now they are going to have to fund his research and he has the opportunity to show his stuff,

Then Willie Nelson hits town and comes to see us at a double concert at Mother Earth... he sees all the music, and half the people got long hair and beards and the other half are all rednecks. Then they take him over to the Armadillo and it's the same way... The energy was just... I mean, I wish I wasn't so stoned back then and would have been able to take more advantage of the situation Because anything could have happened

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

Music was big in the circles that I ran in, and they certainly weren't leftists or alienated. All the high school kids went to The Music Box and The Village Swinger every weekend, and they danced their asses off. These were Dance Bands, again. Otis Reading was big with the college people then.

As a constitutional matter, I share your view that censure of the president would violate the careful balance of separation of powers and the scheme laid out by the framers (of the Constitution) to address the issue of executive misconduct,

I have decided to inform my colleagues and constituents that during my 33-year marriage to my wife, Bonnie, I have on occasion strayed from my marriage, and doing so nearly cost me my marriage and my family,

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

People say about Lubbock that everybody that comes out of there is either a musician or a dope dealer or something like that. And that's true to a certain extent, because Lubbock is just so... like when I was there, it was dry. There was no way to even get a beer.

Revolutionizing takes some talents, many talents, ... My friend Newt Gingrich brought those talents to bear and put the Republicans in the majority. Day-to-day governing takes others. I believe I have those talents.

So I got my Cowboy stuff on... I'm doing this stuff all over India. I went to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma. This last year we went to the Middle East. Me and my son went to Yemen, Syria, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman... Good Will for America

I was a goodie-good kid my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father was the Activities Director, and my mother was the General Secretary of the church.So I grew up in this church environment, but at the same time I had these thoughts of rebellion.

My preference would be to get it over with this year, ... If the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete its work next week it would be pretty certain it would have to be carried over.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

I went to Lubbock High School and graduated in 1967, The Summer of Love. I was a football player, actually and Freddie Akers was my football coach, who ended up coming to the University of Texas.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

I try to spend some time in the street, cleaning up or whatever, ... I think the police are doing a good job. It's quite a bit different.

stick to our principles and set reasonable goals for ourselves.

appears to be falling apart, tattered just in the last two years, unfortunately during your reign.

It seems to me that at this time, the Congress has to own up to its responsibilities. Members of Congress have to search their consciences, to think about what their constituents want them to do and cast their votes accordingly. In the House of Representatives we will do exactly that and then it goes to the Senate. I am sure the Senate will do that as well.

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

This is not something that should be taken lightly, it's not something that should invoke pressure from any one sector of Congress,

I just wanted to make records, to be a musician full-time. I didn't know where I was gonna go, but I just headed out.

Look, I'm running for speaker of the House. I'm not running for sainthood, ... I'm not looking to be canonized. I am just a regular guy.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

Rep. Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is considered the frontrunner to fill Gingrich's shoes as speaker. I will be the next speaker, I believe. I have over a 100 votes or so now, and I need 112, and I'll have them probably in the next few days, ... This Week.