Masset, Beckwith, Walt, Adams, Pena, Grusendorf, Senclair, White, and PoeGOP consultant Royal Masset, talking about Carole Keeton Strayhorn with the San Antonio Express-News: "She's a female Sam Houston. She wants to make her best shot even if the odds aren't that good. If she's going to attack, this is when she goes. As soon as the target's in view, she fires. She's not messing around. She's going." David Beckwith, an aide to U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, criticizing Gov. Rick Perry's promise to spend state money on a road at the U.S. Army's Fort Hood, in the San Antonio Express-News: "If you want to know why you have to have a toll road, look at this $20 million." Perry spokeswoman Kathy Walt in response: "Her 12 years in the Senate have cost Texas taxpayers almost $5 billion that have gone to build roads in other states." Cathie Adams of the Texas Eagle Forum, in the Austin American-Statesman: "I don't think anyone who understands what is at stake is chomping at the bit for a special session." State Rep. Aaron Peña, D-Edinburg, writing on A Capitol Blog (www.acapitolblog.blogspot.com) about a special session: "Come on Governor, pull the trigger, let's give it a go!" Rep. Kent Grusendorf, R-Arlington, looking back on the legislative session in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "I think I had a great session, considering the obstacles. Think about that: We passed a school bill out of the House with virtually no support from the education community. ... I never saw a bill pass with that much opposition." Arturo Senclair, tribal governor of El Paso's Tigua Indians, in The New York Times on the effects of closing the tribe's Speaking Rock Casino: "In two or three years it will be back to the way it was before we had gaming. Then we'll be dependent on whatever federal money we can get, after we tried so hard to be self-sufficient." Houston Mayor Bill White, in a Houston Chronicle article on urban sprawl: "I don't want, nor do most people in this community want, to tell people where they can and can't live or how long their commute should or shouldn't be. One person's sprawl is another person's dream house. On the other hand... it is much more expensive for us to provide transportation services, water and sewer services and everything else if somebody lives twice as far away." U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Houston, quoted by the Associated Press after voting against legislation allowing horses to be slaughtered for food: "The thought of people eating the Lone Ranger's horse -- Silver -- or Tonto's horse -- Scout -- is just barbaric."