It's time.

Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott, on why he's resigning

The campaign was extended an invitation, and we never heard back.

Texas Republican Party spokesman Chris Elam to the Houston Chronicle on inviting Mitt Romney to the party's state convention on June 8

I didn’t write the ad. I didn’t produce the ad, but the ad is factual.

Gary Polland, who had to be removed from his moderator role at an upcoming U.S. Senate candidate forum after a pro-Dewhurst Super PAC he helped start released an ad attacking Ted Cruz and Tom Leppert calling them too liberal for Texas

They don't want you to know the facts. And as long as I'm your representative, I'm going to block the effort to get a presidential permit.

U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, on reports that a new international bridge in East El Paso County could displace as many as 5,000 families, quoted in the El Paso Times

It is the worst kind of pandering. Reyes is "using lies to create anxiety and play upon that to try to win votes. [And] he's using school district resources to further that agenda.

Former El Paso City Council member Beto O'Rourke, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic Primary election, in the El Paso Times

I do not anticipate that Governor Perry will be supportive of any tuition increase.

Jeff Boyd, chief of staff to Gov. Rick Perry, in an email to the chancellor and chairman of the board of the University of Texas System sharing the governor’s thoughts on tuition

I was doing things I was praising myself for. I thought I was the moral lobbyist that was there.

Jack Abramoff, who served 43 months in prison for a conviction in a lobbying conviction scandal, on his past, quoted in the Austin American-Statesman

I was a 30-something father of one when I joined the court. I'm now a mid-40s father of three. And I'd love to become a grandfather while still serving on the court.

Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, who is facing a primary challenge from Austin attorney Steven Wayne Smith, quoted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram