Chris Bell
Chris Bell
Robert Christopher "Chris" Bellis an American politician, attorney, and former journalist. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law. Bell served five years on the Houston City Council from 1997 to 2001, followed by one term in the United States House of Representatives from Texas' 25th Congressional District in Houston from 2003 to 2005. He was then the Democratic nominee in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1959
CountryUnited States of America
The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
Just about everyone in our state is demanding that leaders do something about the quality of education in our public schools.
We need roads, we all know that. What we don't need is to have our land taken away to benefit private business.
I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.
My motive for running is to get Texas out of the 'Thank God for Mississippi' club.
I was very impressed with the facilities here. I can see why it has been called the best of its kind in the world.
Penn State is Penn State, and I like what they stand for, ... I didn't want to miss their climb to the top.
I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
If Tom DeLay really wants to see the source of his problems, he needs to look in the mirror. He chose this path, and now he's paying the price.
Having the best public schools in the country within the next 10 years will require putting the schools back in public school finance reform.
He felt strongly that there was an effort being made to allow corporations to hijack the electoral process.
We're going to have to get past our defeatist attitude if we're going to win again.
When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.