Well, he did ask if I could debate here in Washington on Monday. It is my understanding that the letter has come in. Monday, I’m going to be in Portland in the morning. I’m going to be visiting some of our labs in California in the afternoon. That’s two. I can’t remember what the third thing is.

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., responding to a debate challenge from Gov. Rick Perry

In my heart, I know there was no misconduct whatsoever.

Former Williamson County DA Ken Anderson, who won the wrongful murder conviction of Michael Morton 25 years ago. Anderson is now a district judge, and Morton's been freed.

I think people now realize more the dangers of the scripted candidate.

Former Houston Mayor Bill White to the Houston Chronicle on Gov. Rick Perry, who famously refused to debate White in the 2010 governor's race

It is an ‘Animal House.’ It’s a food fight. Honestly, the Republican debates have become a reality show. People have to be perceived as being capable of governing this country, of being the leader of the free world.

Kenneth Duberstein, a former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, to The New York Times on the series of gaffes and misstatements in the Republican presidential field: 

I gotta go back to — got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

Herman Cain, in what's being referred to as his own "oops" moment, on whether he agrees with Barack Obama's stance on Libya