Gohmert, Burgess, Johnson, Bush, Sarkar, Walker, Berman, and Young

U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Tyler, talking about the bailout package in USA Today: "It's like a big cow pie with a little bit of marshmallow inside and I don't want to eat the cow pie."

U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound, on constituent reactions to the vote and the drop in stock prices, in The Dallas Morning News: "It's two-thirds 'you did the right thing,' one-third 'I wish you thought about this more'. Or maybe even a little stronger language."

U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, in the Seattle Medium: "My feeling is that if you've been making eight, ten, twelve or twenty million dollars a year, why should we bail you out? You should have saved something. I think we ought to be talking about saving people who have lost their homes."

President George W. Bush: "I recognize this is a difficult vote for members of Congress. But the reality is we are in an urgent situation and the consequences will grow worse each day if we do not act."

Sahotra Sarkar, a biology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, talking about curriculum standards with the San Antonio Express-News: "We should teach students 21st-century science — not some watered-down version with phony arguments that nonscientists disingenuously call 'weaknesses. Calling 'intelligent design' arguments a weakness of evolution is like calling alchemy a weakness of chemistry, or astrology a weakness of astronomy."

Republican House candidate Brian Walker, quoted in the Jacksonville Daily Progress on illegal immigration: "The problem is simple, find out why they are coming and then turn it off. And it's not rocket science — the magnet that is drawing them here is the jobs... We will continue to get more and more of the same until we start to heavily penalize the employers who knowingly and illegally hire illegal aliens."

Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, telling the Fort Worth Star-Telegram why he's asked for a legal opinion on the state's college tuition benefits for undocumented aliens: "If it's in violation in California, I would assume that we are also in violation here in Texas. I'm hoping to make people realize that we are a nation of laws. We have to obey our laws, and if we're in violation of federal laws then we have to correct it."

Matt Young, a Republican running in HD-45, quoted in the Austin American-Statesman on undocumented immigrants: "I'm not talking about the God-fearing, hard-working Mexican Texans that live with us. I'm talking about those who are coming over illegally, using our infrastructure, draining our resources and not paying a dime in taxes."