Quotes of the Week

I think Americans just don’t know sometimes which Mitt Romney they’re dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of — against the — Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for Roe v. Wade before he was against Roe v. Wade? He was for Race to the Top — he’s for Obamacare and now he’s against it — I mean we’ll wait until tomorrow and see which Mitt Romney we’re really talking to tonight.

Rick Perry botching a line in his third national debate

We have a debater-in-chief right now.

Anita Perry to a group of Iowa Republicans after the debate

If we're not going to give fellow Americans who live in Louisiana or Oklahoma or New Mexico the ability to come into Texas and have in-state tuition and save, then is it fair to give that break to people who are not citizens here? So, I would not have signed that law.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst to WFAA-TV on the in-state tuition bill that Rick Perry signed in 2001

I was probably a bit over-passionate by using that word, and it was inappropriate.

Gov. Rick Perry on describing the opponents of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants as "heartless" during the last GOP debate, quoted in Newsmax

If he can’t get the job done in Texas with a supermajority, with something that he says is a priority, how is he going to get that done in D.C.? You have control of everything in Texas, and you still can’t it done. He doesn’t want to get it done.

Katrina Pearson, the North Texas Tea Party advisory board member, to Politico on Gov. Rick Perry's inability to enact a ban on sanctuary cities

There is enough chatter and phone calls and static — whatever you call it in the spy business — that everyone is just sitting around.

Ray Washburne, a Dallas businessman and now-uncommitted former supporter of Tim Pawlenty, to The New York Times on uncertainty in the Republican presidential field

Really, really I'm having a hard time deciding. I really want to be a county commissioner, and then you come down here and you like the idea of being in Austin. So I guess I just need to go home and stay home.

State Rep. Inocente "Chente" Quintanilla, D-El Paso, to the El Paso Times on his undecided future in poltics

I don’t like to talk to media. They don’t do anything. They are meaningless.

David Lane, former head of the Texas Restoration Project, in the Texas Independent