apocryphal quote?

[Paul Frank]

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us."

I always thought that this quote was apocryphal. But in today's New York
Times, Nicholas Kristof attributes it to Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, the first
woman governor of Texas (see
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffe6.html).

Kristof writes: "a Texas governor, Miriam 'Ma' Ferguson, barred the
teaching of foreign languages about 80 years ago, saying, 'If English
was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us.'"

Is Kristof right?

Paul
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