Hutchison, Bettencourt, Combs, and Sowder

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, asked by The Dallas Morning News about her political ambitions if she's reelected: "I don't intend to run for the Senate again. I intend to serve six years, but that's not a pledge. That's not a no-matter-what-happens. I'm not going to tell you right now that I know everything that's going to happen in the next six years."

Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Paul Bettencourt, on what the state did with property taxes last spring, in the Houston Chronicle: "Anyone who is running on a big tax cut is making a mistake, because the numbers don't support it. Call it what it is. It's property tax relief. It's not a tax cut."

Comptroller candidate Susan Combs, talking to the Houston Chronicle about her opponent: "I think Fred Head is a very strange man, and I'm very concerned that anybody would believe anything he says."

Former Lubbock County Democratic Party Chair Madison Sowder, talking about Tech Chancellor-to-be Kent Hance's fundraising ability, in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: "He knows all the people who have got money. He lobbies for them."