Pauerstein, Scarborough, Gonzales, Hardy, Salinas, Chisum, Sharp, and Clark Attorney J.D. Pauerstein, talking about a list of names referred to -- but not produced -- by prosecutors who sought indictments against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and two associates, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News: "I'll tell you what I think about this list. In the 1950s, a man named McCarthy claimed to have a list of 200 communists in the State Department, and he didn't. And I think this is the same thing we're seeing all over again with this list." Terry Scarborough, attorney for Bill Ceverha, quoted in The Dallas Morning News after Ceverha declared personal bankruptcy and blamed a legal judgment and other expenses related to his work for Texans for a Republican Majority PAC: "The day he agreed to be treasurer, he didn't realize what the statutes said and he was caught up in the politics of all this." U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a former Texas Secretary of State and Supreme Court justice, asked by the Associated Press whether he'd consider running for office in Texas when his federal gig is over: "I wouldn't close the door, no." Nat Hardy, an engineer who worked for developers and then for the city of San Antonio, talking to the San Antonio Express-News about a slew of "grandfathered" development plans filed in 1997 that allow builders to follow old regulations and to ignore current ones: "Was it a good business decision? Sure. Was it in the best interest and welfare of the city? No. I can look you in the eye and tell you that." Former Hidalgo County Clerk J.D. Salinas, who quit that job to run for county judge, in the McAllen Monitor: "Pride and ego do not have a place in Hidalgo County politics." State Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, telling a business group that state taxes shouldn't favor one group over another: "My approach has been, 'No taxpayer left behind.'" Former Texas Comptroller John Sharp, on who should take the shots if people don't like the tax recommendations made by the governor's task force on that subject: "Blame me. I don't anticipate caring whether you blame me." Jourdanton Mayor Tammy Clark, accused in the slaying of a neighbor, quitting her city position and telling the San Antonio Express-News she was leaving town as quickly as possible, maybe even that same night: "I will not be living in this hellhole. If I can pack my panties fast enough, I will."