It's humbling but premature.

Rick Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier on talk of a Gingrich-Perry ticket, quoted by CBS News

They were abrasive, offensive, and self-centered.

Colorado Polk County GOP chairman Kevin McLaughlin on the Ron Paul supporters who tried to illegally become delegates, quoted by ABC News

President Barack Obama is waging a policy war on conservative values in Texas. This time they want to end a health program for 100,000 Texas women just because we have not funded abortion providers or their affiliates with your taxpayer money.

Rick Perry in a robocall to Texas voters, as reported by The Dallas Morning News

I am flattered that my name keeps surfacing for public office but I have no firm plans to run this election year or in 2014.

George P. Bush, son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush, to the Austin American-Statesman

This is happening in statehouses across the country. It’s lunacy, and lunacy, of course, is in my wheelhouse.

"Doonesbury" author Gary Trudeau to Reuters on Texas' abortion sonogram law, which he lampooned in a controversial strip running this week

I don’t think anybody is against providing health care for women. What we’re opposed to are abortions. Planned Parenthood is the main organization that does abortions, so we kind of blend being anti-abortion with being anti-Planned Parenthood.

Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, on cuts to women's clinics