Duncan, Perry, Ogden, Talton, Earle, Mayfield, Shannon, Strayhorn, Edwards, Thompson, and ShapiroSen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, arguing over whether public colleges should be allowed to continue setting their own tuition, as the Legislature ordered two years ago: "This is a great debate we're having. We should have had it last session." Gov. Rick Perry, telling The Dallas Morning News that the state law that gives college admissions preference to students in the top ten percent of their high school class drives good students out of Texas: "I'd do away with it tomorrow... The top 10 percent [law] is the best thing that ever happened to LSU and Arkansas and Oklahoma." Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, on why booze got included in the Senate's tax plan: "There is no particular social motive behind it. If you're going to raise sales tax, you're going to raise cigarette tax, the question is why not alcohol. The answer is there is no good reason." Rep. Robert Talton, R-Pasadena and the chairman of the Harris County delegation, letting groups dine with and lobby lawmakers in a room at the Capitol: "I told them when I was elected that the only time I was going to meet was if somebody fed us and talked to us." Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Justice depends on the law. The law depends on democracy. Democracy depends on clean elections. Elections in which large corporations and large labor unions buy elections represent a threat to democracy, so the job of a prosecutor is to safeguard democracy." Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, a Republican, telling The Dallas Morning News that state attempts to limit local government growth will hurt business development: "The governor clearly doesn't understand -- perhaps he doesn't have the capacity -- that local governments can attract businesses, not the state. It's the city and county, by offering more attractive tax abatements, that bring in business." Russell Shannon with the Andrews Industrial Foundation, quoted by the Associated Press on that town's efforts to attract a hazardous waste disposal facility: "If we thought we could get an NFL franchise or a river walk, we wouldn't have looked at this industry. We just believe it will bring us some jobs, bring people to our community to get involved in an industry, like they did with oil." Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, talking to toll road opponents outside the state Capitol: "Perry and his hand-picked highway henchmen say we have a choice: No roads, slow roads or toll roads. I say to Governor Perry and his highway henchmen, 'Hogwash.' Vote our way today for freeways." Rep. Al Edwards, D-Houston, arguing for his legislation regulating cheerleading routines in public schools: "Girls can get out and do these overtly sexual performances and we applaud them. And that's not right. This is the beginning of an era to change some of what we've been seeing." Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, arguing against that same bill (which passed the House): "This is a ridiculous bill. I don't know how it got to the floor. We don't have any business mandating anything. We are spending time on '2-3-4, we can't shake it anymore.' It's an embarrassment." Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News saying cheerleader regulation ought to remain in the school districts: "What happens in those local districts needs to stay in local districts."