Yeakel, Reed, Flores, White, Haggerty, Pachon, Bushell, and Smith

Federal Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin, quoted by the Austin American-Statesman after he ruled against Dennis Kucinich's challenge to a loyalty oath required of Democratic Party presidential candidates in Texas: "It seems to me courts should intervene in the affairs of political parties sparingly. I don’t think courts should go out of their ways to inject themselves."

Bexar County DA Susan Reed, quoted in a Houston Chronicle story on Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal: "All of us will make a mistake once in a while and do something stupid. But this was consistent."

Rep. Ismael "Kino" Flores, D-Palmview, in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on whether he'd vote again for House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland: "If we can elect a Democrat for speaker, I'll vote for him. I'm not sure we'll get there. But if we do, I'll be voting for the Democrat."

Houston Mayor Bill White, quoted in the Houston Chronicle on funding for a new professional soccer stadium: "It's not going to be done the way it was done with other stadiums, where the taxpayers picked up the tab. We're not going to do some special deal of giving a lot of money that could go to police or fire to a sports owner."

Rep. Pat Haggerty, R-El Paso, on his reelection race, in the El Paso Times: "I think it's going to be very ugly and very nasty. I've already warned my mother."

Harry Pachon, head of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California, talking to the Los Angeles Times: "That's been a traditional way to approach the Latino vote in the Southwest. The candidate would come into town, say a couple of words in mangled Spanish, eat a taco, wear a sombrero. Times have changed."

Victor Bushell, a partner at Bushell, Sovak, Ozer & Gulmi LLP, in an article on worry in The Wall Street Journal: "I spend all day thinking of ways to gain an advantage over my adversaries, and I assume they're doing the same thing. If that was your job description, wouldn't you be worried?"

Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith, telling the Tyler Morning Telegraph how he responded when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked him to put a jailed man accused of cannibalism on a vegetarian diet: "I kind've said 'pfft' in a very nice way."