Cornyn, Vivio, Hutchison, Perry, Anderson, Chisum, Haggerty

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, quoted by the San Antonio Express-News saying he'll vote against confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court: "The stakes are simply too high for me to confirm someone who could address all these issues from a liberal, activist perspective."

Michael Vivio, publisher of the Austin American-Statesman, quoted in that paper announcing that its owner is taking it off the sale block: "Cox Enterprises said from the beginning that it would not preside over a fire sale. This is a profitable company, and it just did not make sense to sell it for the prices offered."

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, quoted by Congressional Quarterly on Gov. Rick Perry's decision to seek reelection next year: "Nobody expected him to run for 15 years, and I think there's a chance that he wouldn't run because he would see how divisive it is and that he's trying to stay too long and that he can really help in many ways if he doesn't run, in which case I could then be able to stay in the Senate all the way to the end."

Gov. Rick Perry, in The Dallas Morning News: "I guess 15 years in the Senate is not too long."

Dr. Ron Anderson, CEO of Dallas' Parkland Health & Hospital System, quoted in The Dallas Morning News on the high cost of chronically homeless people, remembering one in particular: "When I ran the ER I used to say if we bought him a place on the French Riviera and gave him a $50,000 a year stipend, it would be cheaper."

Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, quoted in the San Antonio Express-News on the state's use of dedicated fee and tax income for other purposes: "It is a shell game, but you know, life is a shell game."

El Paso County Commissioner Dan Haggerty, on a running argument between Rep. Norma Chavez and county lobbyist Claudia Russell, in the El Paso Times: "Call me a chauvinist pig, but it's a bunch of catfighting among women. Girls, let's cut our nails."