Perry, Hutchison, Armey, Hutchison, Sims, and Sharp

Gov. Rick Perry, on the coming GOP gubernatorial primary between him and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: "This is pretty simple to me. This is going to be Washington vs. Texas. Does Washington got the best answers or does Texas got the best answers?"

Hutchison, first elected to statewide office in 1990, the same year Perry was first elected to statewide office: "I think Rick Perry is a dedicated public servant and I know he loves Texas, but he is trying to stay in office too long."

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Flower Mound, introducing Kay Bailey Hutchison, who's challenging Gov. Rick Perry: "If you've been governor of a state for ten years, you should have gotten everything accomplished that you set out to do."

Ray Hutchison, who ran for governor in 1978, after his wife announced for that job: "Nobody wants to hear from the husbands."

Alan Sims, a member of the North Texas Transportation Authority board, quoted in The Dallas Morning News about his problem with a $416 million project that gave less than he wanted to firms run by women and minorities: "We stood before the Dallas County commissioners a few weeks ago and — let me find the proper way to say this — we were grilled, drilled and roasted. I'm embarrassed to go back... This is pathetic."

Democrat John Sharp, who hopes to take Hutchison's place in the U.S. Senate, quoted in the Cherokeean Herald, on the national debate over health care: "For years, the Bubbas were told that we were spending too much on health care. Now they are telling the Bubbas that to solve the problem, we need to spend $1 trillion more. The Bubbas are thinking to themselves, 'This doesn't compute.'"