I’m not going to kiss his ring and I’m not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy. This is exactly what is wrong with politics. It’s show business over substance.

Jon Huntsman, telling Fox News he won't appear at the Donald Trump debate

If you voted to prevent sickness from bacterial diarrhea, you got a bad “fiscal conservative” rating. In other words, Sullivan supported bacterial diarrhea.  I opposed it.

Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, blasting Empower Texans and its director, Michael Quinn Sullivan, in an editorial for a legislative vote included in the group's ranking of lawmakers

If you're someone with a lot of money and you want to affect the election, you get to choose whether you're going to do so secretly, or whether you're going to do so with public disclosure.

Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, on the current state of campaign finance law

You guys are a bigger pain than the back surgery.

Rick Perry to CNN's Wolf Blitzer on how the governor's stem-call procedure has affected his campaign

So I had fond memories. Also, they gave me a shotgun at Christmas, which was kind of embarrassing. But that was a token of love in Texas, I gather.

David Freeman, former head of the LCRA, on working for a board of directors that didn't micromanage the agency